Two best friends, Mariah (b) and Kimberly (Imani Lewis), navigate their after-school routine in New York City. What starts as an ordinary day takes an unexpected turn as the teens explore their closeness, revealing their unspoken attraction for each other and finally uncovering Mariah’s secret—that she wears a binder and has been doing so for years without Kimberly’s knowledge.

2026 / 12 mins / USA

English with English subtitles

Director: Mariales Diaz

Producer: Yoko Kohmoto, Liat Z. Rubin

Executive Producer: Imani Lewis, Brittany Ngaw

Editor: Mariales Diaz, Harry Cepka

Cinematographer: Imani Dennison

Cast: b, Imani Lewis, Devon Ford Jr., Alfred Cabrera

Production Designer: Starr Jiang

First Assistant Camera: Gabriela Azevedo

Art Director: Raga Maddela

Gaffer: Quentin Guobadia, Zach Nicholson

Key Grip: Jared Meyer

Production Sound Mixer: Jonah Bravo

Intimacy Coordinator Alison Novelli, Cheek to Cheek Intimacy

BTS Photography: Gina Detres

Production Assistant: AnQi Yu, Karoline

Assistant / Additional Editor: Nick Okrepkie

Sound Designer & Re-Recording Mixer: Paul Wyderka

Color: Rachel Kong

Title & Credits Design: Starr Jiang

Music: Mars Verrone

Mariales Diaz (Director, Writer, Editor) 

Mariales Diaz is an award winning gender-expansive Dominican writer, director, producer and programmer living in New York. Their storytelling explores experiences that exist within the intersection of survival and love. Diaz’s produced work has played at film festivals such as BlackStar, SFFILM, Hot Docs, New Orleans and Palm Springs Short Fest. They have worked on the production and post-archival teams at companies such as Pilgrim Media Group, Religion of Sports, HBO Max, ESPN and Proximity Media. They are a graduate of the SUNY Purchase Film Conservatory and a 2024 Sundance Institute Trans Possibilities Fellow. They also have participated in fellowships and artist programs such as Film at Lincoln Center's Artist Academy, Sundance Ignite, Creative Culture at The Jacob Burns Film Center, and NeXt Doc. Diaz currently works on the programming team at Rooftop Films and is in pre-production for a new short documentary focused on ecuavoley and the robust organization of the sport throughout Brooklyn.