AN ANARCHIST'S DREAM - synopsis

 

      Two young men share a one bedroom apartment: Victor, a man of action, who uses the bedroom and Gabriel, a man of many words who must settle for the sofa. Living together has become so painful for the two of them that Victor demands that Gabriel move out for failing to pull his own weight. Victor has reached the breaking point and he's tired of taking care of Gabriel.  Victor can't pay rent and Gabriel is too perplexed by his dreams to be very effectual at all.

 

      A  young woman -- Christina --, who apparently belongs nowhere, arrives, in response to an ad place by one of the roommates; and she intends to make a new life for herself there. She is drawn to Victor in an unspoken, animalistic way, while she flirts with Gabriel, who rejects her advances. She probes into Victor and Gabriel's relationship but Gabriel dances around the subject. Victor grumbles at Gabriel's presence and threatens to hurt Gabriel unless he leaves.

 

      Gabriel does leave but merely spends the night outside in Victor's car, while Christina and Victor spend an uneventful night together in the bedroom. Christina has taken the time to clean the place up, thereby placing her unmistakable signature on it, insisting that everything is going to work for a change. Victor acquiesces, and he's content to have someone helping him out for a change. But Gabriel lingers and returns to confront Victor, at which time startling revelations are made  about their relationship and Christina concludes that the situation is beyond her ability to remedy. She decides to leave.

 

      Victor cannot persuade her to stay, and, in his frustration with the turn of events, follows through with his threats and beats the tar out of Gabriel. Victor gets only the satisfaction of venting his rage, but he's unable to eliminate Gabriel's destructive influence. Like it or not, the two are almost fated to live together and torment each other.  Any hope that things would change for the better departed along with Christina.