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What happens when a middle aged white woman encounters a homeless teenager in an abandoned lot?
Perhaps an unlikely friendship and a few life-changing events.
Perhaps an unlikely friendship and a few life-changing events.
Emilia Willoughby has left everything behind, except for a thorny tether of grief due to a painful estrangement from her adult son. Having started a new life in Chicago, she pushes beyond her loss as she observes the world through a camera lens. Wandering in hidden places, she photographs graffiti and meets Andre Sandoval, a talented graffiti artist.
Andre has escaped the chaos of drugs and abusive men tainting his mother, and found shelter among the homeless, living in an encampment with an ex-convict who holds a college degree and a lively house painter with a heart of gold. As Andre takes Emilia deeper into his sometimes dangerous world, she discovers dignity and resilience can be found in the harshest conditions, among people who have lost much more than she has.
Art brings these friends together, and a need for genuine relationships bonds them. One thing they have in common is the belief that life is never perfect, some broken things can never be fixed, and still there is reason to create something beautiful. In both voices, a story of redemption unfolds.
Andre has escaped the chaos of drugs and abusive men tainting his mother, and found shelter among the homeless, living in an encampment with an ex-convict who holds a college degree and a lively house painter with a heart of gold. As Andre takes Emilia deeper into his sometimes dangerous world, she discovers dignity and resilience can be found in the harshest conditions, among people who have lost much more than she has.
Art brings these friends together, and a need for genuine relationships bonds them. One thing they have in common is the belief that life is never perfect, some broken things can never be fixed, and still there is reason to create something beautiful. In both voices, a story of redemption unfolds.