Marilyn Ness’ film, which had its local debut at May’s 20th Maryland Film Festival and went into wider release in October, was shot over three years, beginning just a few months before Freddie Gray’s April 2015 death while in city police custody. Much of the film, which eschews narration in favor of an occasional title card, centers on East Baltimore’s Rose Street Community Center, where former correctional officer Clayton Guyton, known to everyone as Mr. C, holds court.