Isabel Gillies

Part personal video essay, part documentary, part creative intervention—this film charts the rise, the fall and the relocation of a New York video store improbably transplanted into the heart of Mafia country.

A radical student is adopted by a group of young New Yorkers, serves as a catalyst to alter his and their lives. Gathering in a Manhattan apartment, the group of friends meet to discuss social mobility, Fourier's socialism and play bridge in their cocoon of upper-class society - until they are joined by a man with a critical view of their way of life.