The Journey

The journey of art and respect.  Film is a very beautiflul commercial medium and a tiny film out of Jamaica was born to create the viable commercial possibility of art for the sake of art and to tell a story that literally highlights its developing world characters in the midst of their journey, pain and poverty.  It's also to tell a story with a purpose and with meaning, to show struggle and humiliation.  It's a hustlers dream for a beach fantasy from a painting and he commits a crime to get there, which changes his life dramatically, forever.

In a funky cult flick, like street dogs frantic to survive, small time hustler Rocksy, (a taxi driver/part-time pimp), with his prostitute friend Rosie dream of something different, a real life, a future.  On the peeling walls of their tenement, Rosie prominently places a painting she owns that gives them both hope and something tangible to cling to.  Its an exotic beach view of another more peaceful world, but they exist miles and worlds a part. So with his friend and cohort Malt, Rocksy eyes a fancy sports car nearby and together they devise a plot to steal it to sell for parts. This may change their lives immediately. It belongs to a local Lebanese businessman, Faris, but the plot is risky and not well thought out.  Rosie is dead set against it and fed up.  She dreams for the beach view, she wants out, out of being entangled and out of the life.  But she's bait and Rocksy cannot manage without her.  When she finally leaves Rocksy becomes even more desperate and devastated.  He does the unthinkable.  In the Chaos, something changes within him, something rises and like the sun, it sets.  In the context and contrasts of the Jamaican landscape its backstory is political, as the current embedded system doesnt allow for change