Its 80 minutes black and white 35 mm movie film cinematography was shot by Bobby Bukowski and edited by Bob Gould and Susan Graef.

[2] The Way It Is or Eurydice in the Avenues is an indirect homage to the Marcel Camus film Black Orpheus (1959) and in general to French New Wave and Italian Neorealism filmmaking.

[3] A group of East Village off Broadway actors are rehearsing a local no wave production of Jean Cocteau’s Orpheus[4] when the lead actress, Eurydice, is found dead in Tompkins Square Park.

At the funeral, the history of Eurydice is revealed in flashbacks and recollections by the actors, each a suspect in the murder.

Together they examine their decadent relationships with Eurydice within the context of decayed East Village tenement buildings and the Mudd Club so to try to unravel the mystery of her death.