Filmmaker Statement

In the late night when most Angeleno's are sleeping the cities older venues are teeming with life. LA city's 7 card rooms bring in the gamblers. And it's 14 taxi dancehalls or hostess clubs bring in the lonely men. Throughout the week the same patrons return to rinse and repeat the last nights dealings. Many of them lonely, poor and downtrodden. Viewing their time at these places a means of escape and a place to build connections to others like them. In a way fantasizing has become a strength of theirs. However misguided they seem to be, they are human like you and I. This film was intended to show their hopes and their fears and their choice to live by night.