Higher Ground

Five months after a hurricane has devastated New Orleans, native Nicole Naquin is home for the first time in decades. She''s living next door to her mother Miss Gertie, an elderly evacuee from Lakeview reduced to pushing pills in a French Quarter gay bar. On the day Nicole''s brother is killed in a drive-by shooting, she crashes the car into her high-school sweetheart''s FEMA trailer, igniting a s...