Two indigent romantics--a quixotic antihero and a perpetual damsel in distress--come to this country's most unforgiving urban landscape to seize the American Dream. As the stoic symbols of New York dispassionately follow Greg and Erica through the abyss, the contrast of "have" and "have not," of "passion" versus "plaything" becomes glaringly and unsettlingly apparent: sex trysts, piles of liquor bottles, slum lords, cult-like corporations, monies...