Night Always Comes

Lynette’s frantic night is driven by a single deadline: she must raise $25,000 within 24 hours so she can make a down‑payment, get the deed to the house she lives in, and prove to social services that she can care for her brother Kenny, who has Down syndrome. The house is owned by David’s family, and without that payment David will sell it to another buyer.

The clock starts ticking, and Lynette scrambles through Portland, pulling every desperate thread she can find. She first asks Scott, a client who normally pays her for sex; he throws her a meager $1,000 and cuts her off. She steals his car, hoping to sell it, but realizes a stolen vehicle is impossible to move in the night. She then turns to her old friend Gloria, demanding the $3,000 Lynette once bailed her out with. Gloria can only hand over $500 from a sugar‑daddy’s safe, forcing Lynette to recruit Cody, a bar‑co‑worker who’s infatuated with her, to help her crack the safe. With the help of a shady locksmith named Drew they wrestle out cash, cocaine and expensive watches, and after a tense confrontation Lynette escapes with roughly $20,500.

Still short of the goal, she picks up Kenny and visits Tommy, her former pimp, to sell the cocaine. Tommy points her to Blake, a wealthy man who grudgingly hands over the final $4,000 after Lynette violently rejects his attempted assault. With the full sum now in her possession, she rushes home—only to learn that her mother Doreen, having splurged on a new Mazda, refuses to sign the papers and plans to move in with a friend, taking Kenny with her.

A call from David seals the blow: he has already sealed a deal with another buyer, rendering Lynette’s night‑long quest moot. Rather than collapse, Lynette decides to forge a new path. She parts the money: a modest portion for Gloria, enough for Doreen to care for Kenny, and the remainder to pay off the predatory loan from Cash Express and to give herself a fresh start. The film ends with her driving toward the rising sun, the dawn symbolizing a tentative, hard‑won beginning beyond the house she never secured.

Last Updated: August 19, 2025 at 19:40