Helen Lawrence

It's Vancouver, 1948. and a slew of hardboiled bookies, crooked cops, and an enigmatic blond named Helen are all trying to tame the derelict city and their pasts by whatever boozy, pill-popping means necessary. Banter crackles and a killer eludes in this two-toned world of sketchy politics and simmering racial tensions. raising the femme fatale and fedora to new technological heights. Actors perform in front of blue screens as camera-controlled software inserts them into a meticulous landscape of seedy hotels and skid-row streets—projected as a completed film on stage.