Brit runs a hell of a tight ship. Managing the flagship location of Synesthesia, a soulless boutique on the outskirts of Marfa, TX, is not for the faint of heart. To be a retail manager, you have to be a wolf. You have to be a winner. But when a deadly workplace accident unfolds on Brit's watch, she is forced to ask herself a dreaded question: can you be a good person and a company man?
Somewhere between heaven and hell, there is an immigration office in front of a black lagoon. I Hope This Letter Reaches Mictlán follows a young woman, Sarai, grieving the death of her twin brother, Saul. Desperate to see him again, she risks everything to transcend to the Aztec underworld of Mictlán. But the rules of Mictlán are firm: no intervening from the living. Nothing, not even death, can stop Sarai. A supernatural, indigenous, ensemble story about how to say goodbye.
Cynthia stands at the precipice of motherhood, and the only question she can ask is: “How do you keep a ni**a alive?” In this reimagining of Oedipus, we witness a Black mother riddled with fear attempting to mold herself and her family into something acceptable, maybe even excellent.
A synchronized figure skating competition. A broken nose. Twenty teenage girls in a fight to the death, and someone else is calling the shots. Odd, isn’t it?
