With unfettered access, the film follows Baltimore's idealistic young mayor into office, where he puts his personal and political future on the line to save his beloved city from chronic violence.
Direction
Unprecedented mayoral access without hagiography.
Editing
Collapses campaign promise and cruel reality.
Director
Gabriel Francis Paz Goodenough
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released amid 'The Wire' nostalgia epidemic, this refuses fictional distance—same streets, no Omar to save you.
Scott is Baltimore's youngest mayor in over a century; the film captures his first term collapsing in real-time as homicides spike 2021-2022.
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