Shot In Detroit

Violet Hart is a photographer whose will to succeed is tested when the opportunity to make it through questionable activity arises. Violet's previous attempts to leave the downtrodden city of Detroit and strike out in a new place has gone awry. She always returns to cobble out a life for herself in the oddly womblike interiors of Detroit. Nearing forty, she's keenly aware that the time for artistic recognition is running out. She's further handicapped by her loner instincts. Roaming the streets of Detroit, her personal and professional failure is a good match for the city's physical decline.Suddenly an opportunity is handed to her: Her current lover, a Detroit mortician, needs a photograph of a body. She takes the picture. It's an artistic success and she's energized by the subject matter. She's discovered an edgy focus for her work and persuades Bill to allow her to take pictures of some of his other “clients," eventually settling on photographing young, black...