BALM IN GILEAD

In a shabby, barebones, all-night café-diner, the city’s flotsam and jetsam forlornly wash in. Prostitutes, bums, dealers, addicts, dreamers, runaways, the desperate… the lost.   

Amongst this meshing of the city’s underbelly, a collection of colourful characters emerge, including Joe, a cynical, ill-informed, small-time dealer in more trouble than he knows; and Darlene, a wide-eyed, naive newcomer, getting more attention than she wants. 

Together, they might have a shot at escaping the circular, squalid turmoil of life at the edge, but can they do so before it engulfs them?