Journal of Alta California

All Is Not Lost

early anyone who’s lived in San Francisco over the past couple of decades will recognize the ache at the heart of . It’s something that viewers in many communities will relate to, but that feels particularly acute in the city where this indie drama takes place: that sense of loss shared among people who’ve been in S.F. long enough to feel the city become no longer theirs, its fabled Left Coast character steadily eroded by the unstoppable force of New Money.

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