The African Desperate

Newly minted MFA Palace Bryant -- effectively played by artist Diamond Stingily -- has survived the white chaos of art school in Upstate New York and is determined to catch her train back to Chicago on time. She's not going to the party her classmates keep asking about, she's going home to pack, roll one, and bask in the glory of relief -- the exhale that awaits the end of graduate school's hyper-competitive and ineffably eurocentric creative-intellectual warfare. That is the plan, at least, but the next 24 hours send Palace on an unexpectedly beautiful, mundane, and messy trip, sparked by sparing a few extra moments for friends who made the Upstate struggle bearable -- Hannah, Akin, and HotJake among them. Their ride isn't quite over yet.