Desperate Characters
Drama
Overview
Sophie and Otto Bentwood are a middle-aged, middle class, childless Brooklyn Heights couple trapped in a loveless marriage. He is an attorney, she a translator of books. Their existence is affected not only by their disintegrating relationship but by the threats of urban crime and vandalism that surround them everywhere they turn, leaving them feeling paranoid, scared, and desperately helpless.
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Keywords
depression
new york city
husband wife relationship
based on novel or book
midlife crisis
despair
boredom
paranoia
frigidity
vandalism
childlessness
middle class
loveless marriage
anxiety
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