

14 minutes to make you ugly-cry about dreams deferred.
A young Caribbean immigrant mother struggling to make ends meet at her dye factory job finds a release through her abandoned dream of dance.
Direction
Gaspard's confident silence lets the body speak.
Cinematography
Factory grime vs. dream-space glow, stunning contrast.
Acting
Chapman's physical performance—exhaustion and grace intertwined.
Director
Stacy Pascal Gaspard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Miami's Little Haiti with actual community members; Gaspard, also Haitian-American, funded it through a Sundance Institute fellowship specifically supporting Caribbean diaspora stories.
The dance sequence was choreographed first, then the narrative built around it—explaining why the fantasy feels more 'real' than the factory scenes.