Southern gothic and magic realism fuse in in this Atlanta-set ghost story about two Black sisters—one alive and one deceased—and the pact they construct around an arranged marriage.

Sister Salad Days is an Atlanta-set narrative short that explores Black sisterhood, gendered and religious ideas of marital obligation, and the interpersonal harm that is caused in the pursuit of piety.

This is a film about promise-keeping among Black women, living vestiges of the past, and one woman’s desire to build a self-determined life in the Atlanta ethnoburbs.

The project was made with the support of the Visionary Justice Lab in Atlanta, Kashif Incubator, and Guerilla Gear.