A rum-soaked inheritance and one woman finally choosing herself over guilt.
Black Cake follows an Indo-Caribbean woman in Queens who's stuck in a routined life after the death of her mother. She's presented with an opportunity that could change her life, but it requires her to step away from her comfort zone to sell her mother's home.
Acting
Keisha Bissram carries generational weight in every exhausted glance.
Production
Queens feels lived-in, specific, never generic 'ethnic backdrop.'
Writing
Sisters who actually fight like sisters—messy, codependent, real.
Director
Megan Channell
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