Upstairs Girl
A psychotic saxophone player lures victims to deserted spots with his music and then guns them down.
A woman, Nadja, searches for her sister's murderer. This search goes through differing moments of reality, or unreality, that overlap within facets of a broken-up time sense. In this emulation of film noir, the investigative structure does not create suspense; the dialectic murderer/victim does not exist. The crime is fabricated bit by bit, like the staging of a spectacle, and it is in the traditional tools of seduction (the spiked heels) that the weapons will be hidden. Ultimately, the crime Nadja achieves makes her neither a triumphant heroine nor a victim.
Bulgarian Emigrant's Wife
En el verano de 1870, Averill e Irvine terminan sus estudios en la Universidad de Harvard. Veinte años después, viven en circunstancias muy distintas. Averill, más serio y visiblemente más viejo, se ha convertido en un "marshall" federal. Por su parte, Irvine, destruido y arruinado por la bebida, pero todavía en su sano juicio, es miembro de la asociación Stock Growers Agricultores, que está involucrada en un conflicto.
