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UGAR & GASOLINE
Philly, 1964–1969 — a city alive with music, revolution, and the heat of change.

From the corner stoops to the smoke-filled basements, Sugar & Gasoline follows the lives that keep a city’s heart beating through one of the most turbulent decades in American history. At the center is a tight but complicated circle — a smooth-talking hustler with one foot in the streets and the other chasing something bigger, and a woman whose strength is as unshakable as her style. Around them, friends, lovers, hustlers, DJs, business owners, Panthers, and dreamers weave in and out, each bringing their own fire.

Every year brings a new season of joy and grief: block parties under Motown grooves, storefront dreams rising from the sidewalk up, backroom deals, broken promises, and quiet kitchen-table victories. The wars are fought both in the streets and inside the heart — interracial love defies whispers, Black businesses fight to survive, the police close ranks, and the soundtrack shifts from Shotgun to “Say It Loud – I’m Black and I’m Proud.”

By the time the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve 1969, every name, every secret, every loss and triumph will have left its mark. The city will never be the same — and neither will they.

Sugar & Gasoline is a sweeping, street-level portrait of love, loyalty, and survival — a decade told in twelve-bar blues, protest chants, and the crackle of vinyl.