Almost Us

Almost Us tells the story of Arianna, when everything could still happen, when everything felt possible and nothing really was.

In 2016, the city felt too small, the nights too short or too nosy, and nothing in between. Between skipping school and the smoke of badly rolled joints, growing up feels urgent.

There are beach sunsets, captured in poorly grainy taken Polaroids that somehow look golden. On the coast, cigarettes pass between friends, and the first joints are smoked like rites of passage. School becomes just another place to find weed. The future feels distant. Happiness feels easy - or at least loud.

But something is already slipping.

Almost Us is a story of youth as illusion: the friendships that almost lasted, the freedom that almost meant something, and the version of ourselves we almost became
and never accepted.