简介：Menkes’spellbinding,formallyinventivefirstfeaturefollowsdetachedsexworkerIda(TinkaMenkes)throughthebars,flophousesandswimmingpoolsofEastLosAngelesasshemovesinextricablytowardsanunexpectedspiritualawakening.BlendingpoetrybyAnneSexton,MaryDalyandGertrudeStein,withallusionstoCatholicismandmediaevalwitchhunts,thisstylishandslow-burningpsycho-noirbuildstoaspectaculardenouement.