Between snow-covered sidewalks and blaring sirens, we meet the Guardian Angels founder on patrol, a Harlem body-shop owner fighting for dignity, and a woman witnessing the cracks running through her city. With headlines shouting record crime, petrol-station fires, and subway mayhem as the backdrop, A Most Violent Year immerses us in a city at war with itself. But tucked into the anguish are threads of hope—street-level defiance, community uprising, the grit that refused to break.

This isn’t just about statistics—“120,000 robberies, 2,100 murders, 180,000 violent crimes” read the cards. 

A short documentary-style treatment that frames a moment where New York’s decline and myraid individual stories collide.