詩歌和愛情蔓生在紙頁和旋律中,時如畫外音覆蓋全局,時如一場冗長美好的靜默。哈林區的 17 歲少女阿雅娜,敏感銳利,擅於武裝自己。當她墜入玩音樂的以賽亞編織的綿軟情網裡,卻毫無懼惑,一絲不掛地交出自己。全片呼應阿雅娜口語卻力道漸強的詩句,以自然寫實的鏡頭記錄哈林區的人物地景,光亮陰影,捕捉少女轉大人前的情慾漲落,提早臨盆的成年禮讚與身心陣痛。 拉沙德・厄內斯托・葛林,1978 年生於紐約。2008 年同名短片《Premature》獲獎肯定,與女主角左拉・霍華共同改編成為本片,霍華也再度出任女主角。他首部處理跨性別議題長片《Gun Hill Road》於 2011 年首映。Set against the backdrop of a changing Harlem landscape, when seventeen year old Ayanna meets handsome and mysterious outsider Isaiah, her entire world is turned upside down on her path towards self-discovery as she travails the rigorous terrain of young love the summer before she leaves for college.