Taking their camera to the streets of 1983 Seattle—then supposedly America’s most livable city—filmmaker Martin Bell, photographer Mary Ellen Mark, and journalist Cheryl McCall created this devastatingly frank, empathetic portrait of lost youth that follows an unforgettable group of at-risk children who survive on the city’s margins by hustling, panhandling, and dumpster diving.
Taking their camera to the streets of 1983 Seattle—then supposedly America’s most livable city—filmmaker Martin Bell, photographer Mary Ellen Mark, and journalist Cheryl McCall created this devastatingly frank, empathetic portrait of lost youth that follows an unforgettable group of at-risk children who survive on the city’s margins by hustling, panhandling, and dumpster diving.
