The Downtown Eastside of Vancouver has a reputation built mostly by other people's cameras: a few blocks written off in the media as a zone of addiction and human wreckage. This 2011 micro-budget film hands the camera to residents instead, letting them talk about drug use, poverty, and what daily survival actually looks like in the neighborhood, without a narrator translating their lives for an outside audience. The people on screen describe the routines that get them through a day and the community ties that hold the block together, pushing back against the flattening label of "human trash" that the film's own participants say gets applied to them by broadcasters and passersby. There is no reenactment or expert commentary here, just residents speaking for themselves about a place most films only shoot from a safe distance. It is a small, plain record of one Canadian neighborhood most documentaries treat as scenery rather than as a place where people actually live.