Christine, a bright and unassuming young woman, takes a job selling tickets at a porno cinema near Times Square. Instead of distancing herself from the dark and erotic nature of the theater’s milieu, Christine soon develops an obsession that begins to consume her life.

Based on a Brechtian script by Kathy Acker and starring New York underground legends like Nan Goldin and Cookie Mueller, Bette Gordon’s trailblazing New York indie powerfully inverts the gendered conventions of the erotic thriller, foregrounding women’s sexual fantasies in grimy, downtown New York.