Writer-director Rosemary Rodriguez presents a cinematic portrait of drug addiction that is miraculously free of the clichés that often accompany the genre (a feat no doubt achieved through her familiarity with the subject: Rodriguez herself spent many years as a homeless drug addict). Ana Reeder turns in a stellar performance as Rodriguez stand-in Alix, a middle-class young woman living the life of a homeless junkie on the streets of New York's Lower East Side. But when the teen meets successful photographer Digna (Michael Hyatt)--herself a recovering addict--the two women forge a friendship that just might set Alix on the path to redemption and slow recovery. ACTS OF WORSHIP's gritty authenticity stems from Rodriguez' well-written script and a realistic, semi-documentary style that pulls no punches, yet refuses to cave in to sentimentality or judgment.