There is also homeless poet, Karl, who becomes drawn to Liz, a music critic who hasn’t left her apartment since she saw one of the planes crash into the Twin Towers.
Spiridakis succeeds by not revealing all his cards too soon nor even by the film's end as it will take a few keen observations to see how the parallel paths all come to intersect.
"[4] Of the cast, Childress opined, "Garofalo and Esposito somehow find a way through the clowniness to create sympathetic portraits of people who may be relying on excuses to govern their behavior", and "Jennifer Carpenter (in her film debut) does a nice job in conveying the secrets of a soul on a journey with no clear destination.
"[4][5] Ronnie Scheib of Variety reviewed the film negatively, writing it "feels like an existential play poorly adapted for the screen.
"[6] He added, "Only Giancarlo Esposito’s role — that of a down-and-out street poet extravagantly smitten with Janeane Garofalo’s spinsterish shut-in — dovetails with helmer Jim Hershleder’s hyper-real approach.