Desperate for income, Emily takes a shady gig buying goods with stolen credit cards supplied by a charismatic middleman named Youcef. Seduced by the quick cash and illicit thrills, they hatch a plan to take their business to the next level.
Acting
Plaza's controlled desperation—career-best work.
Direction
Ford's lean, sweaty LA noir debut.
Writing
$70K art degree as origin story.
Director
John Patton Ford
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ford wrote this after his own $70K art school debt and years of gig economy survival jobs. The casting callbacks were real rejection letters.
Plaza spent actual time with real credit card scammers in LA; the card-swipe techniques are authentic enough that studios initially balked.
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