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Gordon, a 25-year-old chain-smoking asthmatic who unhappily works at a Brisbane bottle shop, moves into a run-down residential hotel. He becomes embroiled in a romance with Cynthia, a former co-worker who suffers from eczema and low self-esteem. Gordon and Cynthia occupy themselves with drink, drugs, sex, and Scrabble. A love triangle arises when Gordon's former love, Rachel, comes back into his life.

• farm
• cigarette
• sex addiction
• alcoholism
• drug use
• boarding house
• twenty something
• unemployment benefits
• brisbane
• abortion
• eczema
• doomed romance
• high school crush
• old men