Don Bajema

Richmond, California, 1993. Right off Highway 80 on Cutting Boulevard, a small island of run-down buildings sits behind the huge cranes of the old Kaiser shipyards. Among these buildings, "The Tree" -- Earl Watson's Crabtree pool hall -- still stands. Years ago Watson, a 60-year old black man, was a pool hustler up in the Sacramento Delta... (citizencinema.com)

Pregant Hedda, ignoring her husband, invites a former lover to stay with them at a mansion once owned (and subsequently abandoned) by Napoleon himself...