As a lockout at NYC’s energy provider plunges the city into uncertainty, the children of two dysfunctional families must reconsider their lives and choose between breaking free from the madness or being consumed by it. ©
In 1961 Paris, two disillusioned Algerian War veterans, a Sephardic Jew and an Arab, orchestrate an elaborate heist of the métro’s armored money train, La Voie des Finances. ©
All hell breaks loose when Maria and her brothers, stuck helping their alcoholic father on a construction job in wealthy suburban California, cross paths with a strange Irish girl. ©
The rise and exile of Robert F. Williams, the often overlooked and misunderstood revolutionary civil rights leader, whose journey — from fighting the KKK with machine guns in Jim Crow South to seeking refuge in Communist China — redefined Black resistance. ©
“Girl, aging girl, is haunted by own nothingness and devours views from windows (stories, movies, overheard talk and sights in the street, pictures in newspapers, etc.) with continuous feeling she is ‘just about’, miraculously, to come into her own – her own life.” — Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
A collection of illustrations inspired by scenes from well-loved films and TV shows.
BIO
Sasha Behar is a Franco-American writer and occasional painter, raised in Paris’s least cinematic arrondissement (the 15th). Her worldview was shaped by three steady forces: Catalan hedonism, Irish and Jewish guilt, and the unpredictable logic of an alcoholic parent.
Her love of film began at age five when she accompanied her carpenter father to work on the set of Marie Antoinette. She fell in love like you fall off a roof: suddenly, and with no real plan for the landing. A graduate of the Sorbonne with High Honors in English and History, Behar has worked across film and television in both narrative and branded productions for Disney+, HBO, Gaumont, Prime Video, Chanel, and Louis Vuitton.
She has written two short films, two original pilots, and three feature-length screenplays, with recurring themes of dysfunctional families, class rage, cultural displacement, and the quiet (or not so quiet) violence of trying to belong. She has a soft spot for children of chaos, failed revolutionaries, and people who love each other badly. She is currently completing her first novel, Canaries.
