THRASHING

A nameless narrator traverses a lonely city. Distant airplanes pass overhead. The shadows of his former self haunt him in the form of specters as he recollects his sordid past. Reflecting on the brutality of banality, he sells his memories to these other-worldly cashiers that seem to inhabit the world around him.

During a summer weekend in Maine, 11 year-old Alan visits his grandparents, Edith and Harold, unwittingly disrupting their resentful marriage, reigniting old pain and sending ripples of conflict through three generations.

Mikey Liu, a young Chinese American man living in New York City, travels to his hometown for the funeral of his childhood friend, Shaun. As the trip pulls him back into his past, long-buried memories begin to surface, revealing the quiet weight of a complicated friendship.

Lulu, a young Chinese American woman, resorts to petty theft as a quiet act of resistance against the wave of newcomers transforming her neighborhood. As she comes of age amidst the shifting fabric of her home, she is confronted with questions of identity and what it truly means to belong.

A man struggles to find intimacy and loses himself in the process.

After an innocent but inappropriate use of her phone, a young girl navigates conversations with her parents, an awkward call with her boyfriend, and the freedom of her dance class.