Sugar Water

SUGAR WATER is a tender, atmospheric portrait of a young family in New Orleans navigating the fragile balance of love, poverty, and survival.

When the electricity is shut off one hot summer morning, a mother scrambles to find money to pay the bill while her two daughters—Kya, the eldest, and her asthmatic little sister—face the heat with courage and creativity. Left to care for her sister, Kya’s day becomes a quiet journey of determination and imagination as she searches for a way to ease her mother’s burden.

With a little bit of ingenuity and small acts of care she discovers the power of resourcefulness, and love in the face of hardship. Grounded in the rhythms of every day life in New Orleans, Sugar Water is a story about resilience, childhood, and the sweetness that can still be found amid struggle.

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