Susan Dey

In the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, everyone is more than they initially seem. May waits tables, raises a son, Henry, and is an aspiring actress. She needs a roommate and takes in a pizza deliverer named Jonathan, an aspiring songwriter. In the adjoining flat is August, an Austrian body sculptor who appears in a deodorant commercial and dreams big dreams. May takes a job delivering singing telegrams as a stripper, Jonathan invites Henry to tag along with him on deliveries, August gets into trouble with the police who call his father in Austria, and the friendships, frustrations, and love affairs of everyday life come to a head.Read More »

Joanne is married to Bradley, who’s a cop and who abuses her. One day she decides to run away. She then meets Sam, who is separated from his wife, who is obsessed with him. Bradley finds Joanne and the lead takes him to Sam’s boat. Now his wife is on the boat and somehow she’s killed. The police suspect Sam because she was stalking him and because of certain peculiarities in his actions on the day she died. Joanne knows that it’s Bradley who did it but is too afraid to come forward and Bradley has another cop alibi him.Read More »