Survival

A hood love story about Kamaria, a smart but overlooked, forced to grow up in a home where hunger, neglect, and emotional abandonment are normal. Living with an emotionally absent mother and her mother's drug-addicted boyfriend, Kamaria survives through small hustles while still showing up to school and earning good grades that no one notices. When her mother chooses her boyfriend after he crosses an unforgivable boundary, Kamaria is pushed into the streets, spending the next two years couch-hopping, hotel-hopping, and sleeping at school just to make it through each day. On her nineteenth birthday, desperate for stability, Kamaria takes a job as an at-home caregiver for Quinton, a quiet, low-key drug dealer shaped by the streets, and what begins as survival slowly turns into a cautious, hood love built on trust, understanding, and the shared pain of two people who learned how to live without love.