Synopsis
Virgil Bliss is a man obsessed with living a normal life, finding a good job, marrying a decent woman and building a family of his own. The only problem is that he is a recently paroled career thief. After his release from prison after nearly a decade he meets Manny Alvarez who takes naive Virgil under his wing and initiates him in the ways of the world. He introduces him to Ruby, a junkie prostitute, with whom Virgil immediately falls in love. Together they form a kind of damaged family, dogged by mistrust, chemical dependency and the weight of their wasted lives. Everything gets even shakier when the psychotic Manny reappears. Virgil learns a brutal and final lesson in the limits of love and his own good intentions.
About the film
100 min / Black & white, 35 mm
Director Joe Maggio
/ Screenplay Joe Maggio
/ Dir. of Photography Harlan Bosmajian
/ Music Greta Gaines, Clint Jordan, Anthony Gorman
/ Editor Elizabeth Downer
/ Producer Joe Maggio
/ Production P-Kino
/ Cast Clint Jordan, Kirsten Russell, Anthony Gorman, Greg Amici, Mark Romeo, Richard Biermann
