The Sweet East is a picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the United States. Lillian, a high school senior from South Carolina, gets her first glimpse of the wider world on a class trip to Washington, D.C. Separated from her schoolmates, she embarks on a fractured road trip in search of America. Along the way, she falls in with a variety of strange factions, each living out their own alternative realities in our present day.
The spellbindingly singular directorial debut of Safdie Brothers cinematographer Sean Price Williams (Heaven Knows What, Good Time), The Sweet East is a raucously unconventional road trip movie and an energising bolt from the blue for American indie cinema, taking a host of the most exciting young talent in Hollywood along for the ride.