CINEOS Premiere

Medicine for Melancholy

One day and night between two strangers in San Francisco — a tender walk-and-talk that turns out to be an elegy for a city quietly pricing its Black residents out.

Jenkins keeps it unhurried and warm enough to relax into, then lets a low political unease run beneath every scene so it never fully settles. He drains the color from the city and lets it return only in fragments — an image you feel before you understand, tying the city's aliveness to a presence being erased. It leaves a quiet ache rather than a blow, the diffuse grief of two people alone together inside a place that has no room for them.