The film was first released on a VHS compilation also called "Cutting Moments" before being re-released in August 2004 as part of Buck's suburban holocaust collection Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America.

[3] In the center of a uniform, monotonous subdivision, married couple Sarah and Patrick have been living with their emotions kept isolated between themselves and their son, Joey.

When Patrick shows disinterest and disdain towards his wife (by ignoring her and continuing to watch TV), Sarah goes to the bathroom and removes her lipstick.

The two then have tearful, bloody sex, which culminates with Patrick using hedge trimmers to sever his wife's breast and his own penis, with both promptly dying of blood loss.

Anita Gates of The New York Times wrote of the film "scenes are almost unwatchable but have a curious, grotesque power", and of Buck's work, "There is a sober intelligence behind his low-budget gore, but its shrill excess drowns out the ring of truth".