[1] Set in Toronto during the two-week period leading up to a total eclipse of the sun, the film revolves around ten characters of varying sexual orientations whose urban lifestyles are marked by emotional and social disconnection from others.
"[3] Rick Groen of The Globe and Mail wrote that "the movie's success hinges on whether these essentially bleak interludes possess any dramatic conviction, whether the many psychological blackouts are as resonant as their astronomical equivalent.
Aided by Podeswa's flair for elliptical dialogue, and buoyed by a strong ensemble cast (notably Pascale Montpetit as the maid and Matthew Ferguson as the teen), a few of the encounters strike allusive sparks, lighting up the welter of conflicting emotions that lurk just beneath the sexual act.
"[5] For the Vancouver Sun, Lloyd Dykk wrote that "The even tempo to the scenes and a sound track of Indian ragas and wailing Moorish chants have a cool, hypnotic effect and the movie has a feeling of effortlessness.
The script seems to borrow the device of the brilliant Austrian Arthur Schnitzler's 1891 play, Anatol, whose chain of desultory pairings had the effect of atomic fission, adding up to a human meaning that was exponentially greater than its parts.