Four

On the fourth of July in 1996, June, a sixteen-year-old white boy, meets up with a closeted, married black man he’s met over the internet. On the same night, in the same city, this man’s sixteen-year-old daughter agrees to go out with Dexter, a twenty-year-old, low-level drug dealer. In lonely landscapes of movie theatres, fast food restaurants, darkened churches and public parks, they discover the limits of desire and the possibilities for transcendence. Christopher Shinn’s Four is directed by Michael Matthews.