"Cauleen Smith produced, edited and co-scripted (with Salim Akil) this low-budget drama, her directorial debut. Sitting on her porch in West Oakland, second-semester college student Pica Sullivan (Toby Smith) sees a woman, Tobi (April Barnett), being beaten and left on the street by an abusive boyfriend, so Pica goes to help her. Pica is failing her photography course because she skips class and also refuses to use a 35mm camera. Instead, on Polaroid she records the images of African American men, whom she fears someday will become extinct and forgotten. She also spends time putting missing children posters around her neighborhood. Pica runs into gangsta wannabe Tobi again, and she also grows fond of T-shirt dealer Malik (Will Power). When violence and tragedy strikes close to home, Pica is left to struggle with the stress of school, supporting her mother (Channel Schafer), and the deadline on her art project. Pica falls ill, but after Tobi nurses her back to health, Pica completes her art project -- sculptures in the vacant lot where a murder has taken place. The sculptures are shrines to the men (dead and alive) in her photos. Piano and guitar score by Kurt Harpel and Pat Thomi. Shown at the 1998 Hamptons Film Festival."