Night Has Settled

In 1983, thirteen-year-old Oliver Nicholas is on the brink of entering the adventurous teenage realm of first sexual encounters, vodka, and potential romance in New York City. However, his journey is abruptly disrupted when his housekeeper, a sixty-five-year-old Chilean woman named Aida, who serves as his only genuine maternal figure, suffers a stroke. What was meant to be an exciting and slightly daunting initiation into the world of new experiences is overshadowed by an overwhelming and inexplicable depression, turning his home into a place of internal turmoil. Oliver finds himself surrounded by women: his unconventional Spanish mother, a photographer who prefers being a confidante over a traditional maternal role; his sister, a comedic figure who slams doors and torments him, shaped by their parents’ divorce; and Aida, his silver-haired emotional anchor, now on the brink of death in Lenox Hill Hospital. Amidst this chaos, Oliver grapples with maintaining his position as the “man of the house” while trying to preserve his sanity.