An unemployed ex-office worker searching for work floats a fragile line of sanity as she struggles to find friendship and companionship. Her tenuous grasp on reality further fluctuates when a man whom she met in a restaurant and started an affair with is called to go to India for an assignment. The final straw occurs when she is evicted and moves into a sleazy hotel. She then starts seeking casual sex in unorthodox locations just to have human contact.
Acting
Anna Thomson's raw, unflinching descent into fragmentation.
Cinematography
1990s Manhattan as crumbling purgatory.
Director
Amos Kollek
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of 1990s 'mumblecore' adjacent cinema exploring female subjectivity through lo-fi production, alongside films by Lodge Kerrigan and early Todd Solondz.
Tracee Ellis Ross appears pre-fame; director Amos Kollek's father was Jerusalem's mayor, making his NYC gutter portraits a deliberate exile.
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