
            In New York City, a young runaway named Wren (Susan Berman), who fancies herself to be an up-and-coming rock 'n' roll star, steals sunglasses from a pedestrian and pastes photographs of herself inside a subway train. There, Paul (Brad Rinn), a plainly-dressed newcomer to the city from Montana, is smitten by the teen girl. When Wren gives him one of her handbills, he follows her around town and approaches her that night in front of the Peppermint Lounge, a nightclub for New Wave rockers. When Wren is ignored by the showcased musicians, she allows Paul to walk her home, but rejects his request for a date.The next morning, Paul awakens in his makeshift home, a spray-painted van, and admires Wren's flyer which features the text, "Who is this?" On Friday night, Paul waits outside Wren's door to her apartment building and she reluctantly agrees to join him for a movie. Although Paul tries to coax her back to his van, his seduction is interrupted by a bygone rock star named Eric (Richard Hell), who jumps out of a taxicab to get away from his blonde date. Besotted by Eric, the former front man of the band "Smithereens," Wren chases him to a bar and vies for his attention while Paul grudgingly plays video games. Paul begs her to leave, but she insists Eric can bolster her career. As Wren and Eric dance, Paul leaves in anger.Sometime later, Eric carries the intoxicated Wren back to his basement dwelling and speaks of his plans to move to Los Angeles, California, where he will revitalize his rock and roll career. In the bathroom, Wren discovers Eric's disheveled and injured roommate, Billy (Roger Jett). Although she rejects his advances, she awakens the next morning to find herself lying between the two men, completely clothed, as Eric's sultry, blonde taxicab companion watches from across the room. Eric kisses Wren goodbye and she returns to her shared apartment to find a padlock on the door. The landlady throws her clothes out the window and pours water on her head for failure to pay the rent.Now homeless, Wren seeks a loan from her sister, Terry (Pamela Speed), who suggests the girl return to their family home in New Jersey. Terry's boorish husband, Mike (Tom Cherwin), also refuses Wren's request.Wren finds Paul's van in a vacant lot and begs for help. Although he tries to drive away without her, his vehicle breaks down, and she convinces him to burglarize her apartment to retrieve her remaining belongings. Back in the van, Wren finds Paul's handgun and moves into his shabby abode. However, she remains infatuated with Eric.Sometime later, Wren tries to take up residence with her copy shop co-worker, Cecile, but the girl insists her roommates despise Wren. When Cecile pleads for an introduction to the infamous Eric, the girls head to his apartment for a date, but he fails to show. Dejected, Wren returns to Paul's van and rests next to him. Paul awakens in anger and accuses Wren of being an opportunist.The following day, Wren finds Eric at a café, beguiling another lovesick devotee into financing his Los Angeles pilgrimage. Wren insults the woman and a fight ensues. That evening, Paul finds Wren in his van with a bloodied face. She tells him about a dream in which the world is blown to "smithereens," but the deluded survivors still go about their lives in ignorance, floating on remaining shards of earth. Wren admits she is from New Jersey, where she is universally despised, and asks Paul to shoot her, but the two make love instead. Afterward, Paul announces his plan to leave for New Hampshire and invites her along.When Paul is away the following day, Wren is surprised to find Eric in the van. He claims to be out of money, with no ride to Los Angeles. Although Wren is considering the move to New Hampshire, Eric tempts her with a kiss and shares a "dangerous" idea. Sometime later, at a nightclub, Wren propositions a married businessman named Ed who is in New York City for a convention. As they leave for his hotel in a taxicab, Eric joins them and holds the man at gunpoint, demanding money, jewelry, and his pants. At Eric's den, he counts their booty of $176 and permits Wren to keep Ed's wristwatch. She returns to Paul's van the next morning to collect her two shopping bags of belongings. Leaving behind her broken television, she announces her departure for Los Angeles, but Paul warns Wren that she cannot keep exploiting her allies.Wren arrives at Eric's apartment to find him gone. In the foyer, Eric's glum, blonde companion shocks Wren with the news that she is Eric's wife, and offers Wren a cigarette in commiseration. Wren heads to co-worker Cecile's apartment and unsuccessfully begs for a place to stay. Homeless yet again, Wren pushes her way into the Peppermint Lounge to proposition a musician, but she is thrown out of the club by a security guard. As a last hope, she telephones her sister but the woman's callous husband answers and Wren hangs up.After spending the night on the subway with fellow homeless derelicts, Wren returns to Paul's van, sees a man working underneath the vehicle, and presumes him to be her former lover. However, a stranger slides into view and reveals that Paul sold the inoperable van for $700. Inside, Wren finds the new owner's small harem of prostitutes, sitting beneath Paul's portrait of her. Grabbing her broken television, Wren walks away in defiance. Along the road, she is mistaken for a prostitute, and initially ignores the man's solicitation. However, Wren reconsiders when he asks if she has anywhere else to go.
    

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            Andrea Wilcox (Zoe Tamerlis) is an aspiring blonde actress from Dallas, Texas who has run away from her abusive husband, Keefe Waterman (Brad Rijn), and their toddler son. Keefe tracks her down in New York City, where he finds her at a nude modeling shoot. He chases her into the street, forcing her into his car. They arrive at her apartment where he shows her film footage of their son. Andrea escapes the interrogation, fleeing to the home of Christopher Neville (Eric Bogosian), a film director who has promised her a role in his upcoming picture; Neville is a disgruntled filmmaker who has recently returned to New York from Los Angeles after his last film was canceled over budgetary disputes. Neville and Andrea have a sexual encounter, but the two get into an argument afterward and he strangles her to death; her murder is caught entirely on camera from a camera he has hidden in the room.After Andrea's body is found in Coney Island, police immediately suspect Keefe of her murder and he is arrested. Neville, however, ingratiates himself with Keefe by buying him an attorney and earning him his freedom; Neville claims to have witnessed Keefe's arrest on the street and become fascinated by his and Andrea's stories. Neville tells Keefe he wants his next film to be based on Andrea's life. Keefe, initially reluctant, agrees to help Neville as a technical advisor.At a local Salvation Army, Keefe meets Elaine Bernstein (also Zoe Tamerlis in a dual role), a directionless local woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to Andrea. He brings her to meet Neville, who casts her in the film as Andrea. Neville brutally strangles Leon Gruskin (Richard Greene), a snarky film lab assistant, to death before having dinner with Elaine to solidify her contract.During the film shoot, Keefe becomes upset when the actor portraying him reveals he had sex with the real Andrea, and assaults him. Later, Elaine visits Keefe, and the two end up having sex. Neville ultimately decides to fire the actor and cast Keefe in the film, playing himself.At the end of the shoot, Keefe uncovers Neville's film reel containing Andrea's murder. Keefe attempts to view the footage with Elaine, but is prevented by doing so when Neville arrives, and he damages the negatives in the process.Neville calls Elaine to his home, where he attempts to recreate the night of Andrea's murder, this time using Elaine. Meanwhile, Phillip LeRoy (Kevin O'Connor), a detective who has grown suspicious of Neville, is staked outside his home. Keefe watches Elaine enter the house from the street, and breaks in through a window. He disrupts the liaison by pulling plug fuses out of the breaker box, shutting off the lights. Detective LeRoy notices the lights shut off from the street, and begins investigating. In the house, Neville attacks Keefe with a pair of scissors, and the two struggle. Keefe throws Neville over a balcony, and he lands in an indoor fountain below. Simultaneously, Elaine restores electricity to the house, and Keefe throws a light into the fountain, electrocuting Neville to death.Shortly after, Keefe and Elaine arrive at the airport to board a plane to Dallas. There, Elaine plans to assume Andrea's identity for the sake of Keefe and Andrea's son, and start a new life there.
    

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