Alice spends her days enslaved on a rural Georgia plantation, restlessly yearning for freedom. After a violent clash with plantation owner Paul, Alice flees through the neighboring woods and stumbles onto the unfamiliar sight of a highway, soon discovering the year is actually 1973.
Acting
Keke Palmer's transformation from broken to unstoppable.
Direction
Ver Linden's bold genre pivot halfway through.
Costume
Alice's evolution from rags to Pam Grier realness.
Director
Krystin Ver Linden
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film explicitly references Coffy and Foxy Brown, with Alice watching Pam Grier films to reclaim her agency.
Ver Linden based the premise on real 'neo-enslavement' cases in 20th century America, where Black workers were held in debt peonage well into the 1960s.
US
