Joshua Teixeira

Natasha takes place over the course of one summer. It is the story of Mark Berman, 16, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants living in the suburbs north of Toronto. When his uncle enters into an arranged marriage with woman from Moscow, the woman arrives in Canada with her fourteen year-old daughter, Natasha. Mark, a slacker, is conscripted by his parents to take responsibility for the strange girl. He learns that, in Moscow, she’d led a troubled and promiscuous life. A secret and forbidden romance begins between the two of them that has bizarre and tragic consequences for everyone involved.

In the dark of night and winter's harsh realm, a young man emerges from a violent encounter in the back alleys of the gay ghetto to become an avenging angel.

A streetwise hustler is pulled into a compelling conspiracy after witnessing the suicide of a girl who looks just like her.