Below Dreams

Against the backdrop of New York and New Orleans Elliott Leanne and Jermaine question their ability to dream amidst a crumbling economic climate Opening in the streets of downtown Manhattan Elliott 23 living at home after college is surrounded by incomplete projects frustrated and in search of purpose Simultaneously in New Orleans Leanne 26 an aspiring modelactress and single mother of four struggles to pick up the pieces presenting at times a clash between family and her ambitious career Plagued by an unforgiving criminal record Jermaine 22 a New Orleans native shifts through his home town for what seems like a hopeless attempt at legal employment After a series of rejections he resolves to reinvent himself in hopes of successfully starting anew