The Local (film)

The film follows Noname, a small-time drug trafficker hired by a wealthy out-of-towner to help free his drug-addicted daughter.

Noname (Dan Eberle) is a mysterious, lowly drug courier in Brooklyn, New York looking for escapism from his tortured and violent past.

He rents out the basement of a married couple, struggling to stay clean from drugs and make ends meet with no job or money, which has him resort to working for psychotic drug dealers, particularly Sig (George Tchortov) and Big Black (Paul Bowen) Under surveillance by wealthy out-of-towner, Frank (David F. Nighbert), and his associate, Joe (Paul James Vasquez), Noname confronts them in their car, where he is offered $5000 in return for his cooperation, later revealed they want him to emancipate Frank’s heroin-addicted, estranged daughter Claire (Maya Ferrara) from the drug house of his boss, Big Black.

During his errands, Noname meets drug dealer, Blueboy (Beau Allulli), and elderly leukemic woman, Anne Thomson (Janet Panetta), both who befriend him.

When his tenant Joe (Torben Brooks) discovers his life by finding a syringe in his basement, he is evicted from the premises and sleeps at the train station.