Memories of Freedom

<p><strong>Memories of Freedom</strong> is a frank often poetic but emotionally real look at lives in San Francisco's pre-Facebook Mission District. People on the margins have run aground in residential hotels or on the needle-strewn sidewalks in the aftermath of Reagan policies.</p><p>Is life in a residential hotel the dead end it feels like? Is it possible to find friends lovers or even escape from the land of the seeming lost and forgotten?</p><p>Over the span of a day and night four lives intertwine; those of <strong>Nate</strong> an obsessive mender of things who even thinks he can mend people and <strong>Henrietta</strong> a young woman trying to make her way in a confusing inattentive world that doesn't need her at all. <strong>Tommy </strong>is a retired ex-cook from the Merchant Marine who never lost the freedom of the taste of wind and sea on his lips. <strong>Martin </strong>is a Native American slipped to living hand to mouth on the streets a soaring spirit who has lost the dreams of his spirit home. </p><p>As their paths cross and re-cross during this warm October day they are pushed to the brink of themselves and their ability to survive in a world that sees them as completely expendable. </p><p>Their separate yet connected experiences show the many facets of life on the precipice exploited ignored or both clinging to the last dollar and dreaming of a home and their memories of freedom.</p>