Night Has Settled (2014)

Night Has Settled 2014 In 1983, Oliver Nicholas, at thirteen, is well poised to enter the precocious teenage world of first sex, vodka and possible love in New York City when he is traumatized by the stroke of his housekeeper and only true maternal figure, a sixty five year old Chilean woman named Aida What was supposed to be an exhilarating and somewhat fearful rite of passage diving into the exciting, fast paced world of first experiences quickly becomes skewed by an incomprehensible depression, and a house of interior horrors Surrounded by women his untraditional, Spanish, photographer mother more interested in the role of confidante than mother his sister, a comedic, door slamming tormentor, marked by her parents divorce and Aida, his silver haired emotional focal point on the verge of death in Lenox Hill Hospital Oliver struggles to maintain his role as man of the house and his sanity With his best friends, Nicholas Pinto, Raul Pinto, Valerio, a chain smoking, nunchucking, grandiose artist and Nick, a cynical, foul mouthed, jokester, Oliver struggles through attacks of mania, drunkenness, first love, betrayal, migraine inducing masturbation, virginity, and the loss of an imaginary friend hoping to survive this uniquely New York baptism by fire