Dinner on the wall

Odette, a fat, plus-size Black woman in her 50s, full-figured with a large soft body, round face and double chin, who is a cabaret singer: deep brown skin, a sculpted silver finger-wave bob, bold red lipstick, statement emerald earrings, wearing a floor-length emerald green satin gown with an enormous flowing train; and Big Tama, a Samoan man in his 40s, a former rugby player turned florist: 6 foot 5, huge and broad, warm smile, black hair tied in a top bun, full traditional Samoan tatau covering one arm from shoulder to wrist, wearing a white T-shirt, dark jeans, brown work boots and a sage-green canvas florist's apron with secateurs in the pocket. An impossible dinner party: the camera is level with a busy city street, which runs straight up the left side of the frame; on the vertical brick facade of the building a long dinner table is bolted flat against the wall, perpendicular to the wall, with Odette and Big Tama and guests standing horizontally on the wall as if it were the floor, their bodies pointing sideways parallel to the ground, wine pouring sideways from Tama's bottle, candle flames pointing sideways, golden hour. The sideways dinner party is in full swing: Tama pours wine that arcs sideways, Odette throws her head back laughing, a guest sprints along the wall with a cake; the camera barrel-rolls a full 90 degrees as it flies along the table so the wall becomes the floor.