A foundling's necklace, a mother's track marks, and the meanest streets of '90s NYC.
Fiona is abandoned at six months of age, raised in foster and adoptive homes, abused, and, still a teen, hustles on the streets of New York. We watch her use heroine, fall in love with other women, be pursued by men, engage in murderous violence, hide out in a crack house, and decide to leave the city. We see her mother, also a streetwalker and drug user, occasionally talk about her lost daughter. Fiona has a necklace she was clutching when a foundling. Will mother and daughter meet? Is there a silver lining?
Acting
Anna Thomson's feral, heartbreaking vulnerability.
Direction
Kollek's documentary-adjacent NYC street realism.
Director
Amos Kollek
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a loose trilogy with 'Sue' and 'Bridget,' Kollek's female-driven NYC misery portraits that played Cannes but barely cracked US distribution.
Anna Thomson was 39 playing a teenager; her weathered face is the film's accidental thesis on accelerated aging through trauma.
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