Faida, a journalist in her early thirties, falls intensely in love with the promising colorful street artist Ngozi Palmer. As their relationship grows, she abandons her goal of being the editor of a local paper. For five years, Faida is engulfed in the whirlwind of Ngozi’s worldview and the ideologies of the grassroots Southwest Atlanta community. She accepts his neo-holistic way of life that heals and stifles her in the same breath of its limitations. Faida learns to eat right, make her own clothes, and puts Ngozi first above her aspirations of being an award-winning journalist.

She is finally forced to face the reality that Ngozi has not been completely honest when he decides that Faida (alone) is not enough for him and takes a flighty young single mother as his second wife without telling her.

In an act of reclaiming self and the voice that dissipated in the five-year relationship, she frees herself from a lifestyle that she has outgrown and never fully agreed with.

Faida returns to her life and career, but never loses the lessons of the vibrant West End community and her lessons in love from Ngozi.

Screenplay by Nzinga Kemp;
Adapted from a short story by Yakini Kemp