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Todd Verow returns to a similar format as previous movie: The End of Cruising. And again we cross around the various gay capitals of the world, most prominently Berlin and New York. This time various encounters between (mostly homosexual) people looking for lust and love are very much so visually narrated. The stories follow one another in sequence and are only vaguely connected. Sometimes we merely see the characters preparing to meet someone, or returning from a one night stand, all without uttering a single word. In others of its vignettes they speak more, but it is noticeable that there is a lot less dialogue, as this is only of secondary importance. It is all about body language in this film; not only between two or more persons, but also in the way a character emotes his true self on their own, and thereby revealing all the more about themselves to us the viewer.

There's some nudity and a couple of sex scenes, so some viewers might enjoy it for that. But there isn't much plot; acting, such as there is, is bad; and sound quality rivals many home movies: WAY too much background noise in most scenes.