A successful white documentarian deals with the fallout from his last film, which caught the murder of a Black teen on tape. While he films a new doc series, someone else tapes his every move.
The 12-year old Dolores, a feisty preteen desperate to be seen as a grown-up in 1976 suburbia is on her humiliating, hilarious journey from girlhood to growing up. She fantasizes about sex, womanhood, work... and Freddie Prinze. The girl thinks she's got the lowdown on being a woman, but when her overworked single mom Janice hires Cleo to babysit her world collides with the super cool black 16-year old's, each learns painful truths about what it really means to grow up.
"17 Things I Wish I Could Tell You Since You Died" is a film that honors the filmmaker's brother, who died of AIDS at the height of the crisis in the U.S. The film recalls things the filmmaker wishes she could relay to her late brother, including her own move to New York City and her belief that he would have really liked Hettie Macdonald's "Beautiful Thing." The film is an experimental exploration of loss and grief and unsaid things.
