Set in the»60s, that halcyon era of political action and
cultural definition evoked in Sayles» first film, this story of an ambitious Jewish high school student's affair with a dapper Italian - American petty criminal renders assimilationist concerns through the tender prism of a love story.
Other items are the very
definition of ephemeral, like Emmett Ramstad's 1995, comprised of rolls from the register of a defunct LBTG bookstore, which testifies to the power of something as inconsequential as a receipt to
evoke an overlooked fiber of the American
cultural fabric.