A young man in a dead-end job drifts toward a life of crime. The
storyline could come from any one of a number of Amerindie films, but it doesn't begin to capture this film's inventiveness, its attention to race and class, its irony and its subtle but incisive critique of consumerism. The plot itself drifts from genre to genre, encompassing Hitchcockian psychodrama, romantic comedy and neonoir. Furtado's deployment of point of view and voiceover betray the formal invention at work beneath the surface.