Shared households have become a common living arrangement for many young adults, often driven by economic constraints. While being a stage for the flaws in today’s economical system, these shared spaces also become platforms for enacting disruptive politics, where concepts like common goods, shared work, and non‑codified relationships come into play.

Tomassini frames the shared house as protagonist: a microcosm of precarious neoliberal existence, yet also a site of solidarity, trust, and domestic intimacy that defies conventional norms. Could forced collectivity open up new modes of relational living? Does the unstable structure of shared space hint at alternative forms of belonging and generative care?

The Southern Thruway interlaces personal voices, visual data, speculative narration, and political reflections. It highlights how young creative workers get caught in repeated displacement, career instability, and housing stress, but also forge unexpected forms of interdependence and even queering of domestic life.

The Southern Thruway is part of the New Perspectives block, which spotlights emerging filmmakers who are expanding the possibilities of the essay film form.