In desperation at their mum's new boyfriend, two siblings and their new friend set off on a running wild trek across Massachusetts, crossing paths with a variety of American eccentrics, angels and desperados. Sweet Thing is an intimate, creatively filmed, and fantastically personal film from accomplished indie filmmaker and favourite of the arthouse scene in the ’90s, Alexandre Rockwell (In the Soup, Little Feet). Shot in rich monotone (with occasional bursts of colour) and largely from the hip, both of which lend the distinctive feel of the ‘90s indie films with which Rockwell made his name.