SWEET THING centers around the lives of two children in contemporary New Bedford, Massachusetts in particular one eventful summer spent in a beach house with their mother and her boyfriend. The story is an intense but ultimately uplifting, poetic rendering of childhood that captures the essence of that time in life when a day can last forever. The friendships, loyalties, and challenges of adolescent youth propel the story into a triumph of childhood hope and resilience.

Writer/director of Sweet Thing, Alexandre Rockwell also teaches film at the prestigious NYU Tisch School of the Arts. This filmmaker, along with his wife, actress Karyn Parsons who plays the mother in the film, takes a deep dive into the craft of filmmaking.