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This is a follow-up to my previous short, Subterranean Love, which focuses on two of the peripheral characters from the first film. Two people, an older man and a somewhat (40s) younger woman, with conflicting needs, with emotional luggage, who at some point try to come together. The film is set in New York. The lead actress, Mihaela Mihut (Actors Studio member), was the acting coach on the highly acclaimed Rumanian film 'Selfie.'
A day in the life of Olga, an old Russian woman who lives in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn (Little Odessa). She plays accordion on a subway platform to earn a little money. She meets a younger acquaintance on the ride back from Manhattan who drags her for company at a Boardwalk restaurant. They share their worries and dreams. Olga returns to her sick husband, Misha, whom she can't change, but loves nevertheless. And then....another day.
Two lonely people, with personal baggage, on separate evenings out - on the same street in Greenwich Village, she with a friend, he alone, end up on the subway platform where an old Eastern European woman plays rueful accordion music (she becomes a muse/cupid). They get into the same subway car and from there surreptitiously observe each other and submerge themselves in romantic fantasies (black and white). They never speak and she, just before exiting the train, has one last 'fantasy kiss' on the train, ending their 'romance.' Haunting accordion music and subway imagery add a fine subtlety to the romance and mystery.