This psychological thriller pulls the viewer through the various scenes of our alienated and isolated hero. Trapped in a meaningless and uninspiring job with friends who are just as alienated. Our hero has one friend who uses his creativity in music to find escape into a happier acceptance of life. But our hero is trapped in his own slowly grinding inertia, for what reason we do not know, but that his fate seems sealed mentally. Even romance does not motivate our hero till finally his awareness of a friend's betrayal and his own survival awakens him to rise above the garbage heap of modern ennui.
Shot in black and white this modern everyman triller pulls us through a colorless view of modern life. The music and film technique do not show beauty, but create a setting to convey the inner tension and awakening that makes our hero rise above his own, and by implication, our circumscribed existence to a more aware and fulfilled life in spite of the colorless world that is often forced upon us.
