 The film is a biblical soap-opera whose action unfolds in the Californian desert. Karen and Wes s marriage is crumbling apart - like a sandcastle. Karen can t even make love to her husband any more - the sand has managed to get everywhere. Harry, a tax collector, is a witness to this marriage falling apart. As a civil servant he hears Wes confession. However he isn t able to help him. The omnipotent eye of television glitters above the desert - that raw allegory of America where neither the white nor the black have it good. If Samuel Beckett and Joan Collins had a romance, then their child would look like this film.