A compelling depiction of race relations, The Dark End of the Street is a coming-of-age story set in a North Cambridge housing project. When a black youth falls off a building roof, the only witnesses are a white teenage couple. The girl’s impulse is to go to the authorities, but her boyfriend—who has already done time—advises her to keep quiet. As a result, another black youth is suspected of the "crime," and a number of suppressed tensions explode into the open. With a cast culled largely from the Theater Company of Boston and a bare-bones budget of $150,000, The Dark End of the Street represents regional independent filmmaking at its purest and an embodiment of the working-class concerns it addresses.