Oasis

Fish an aspiring painter leaves the safe haven of home and moves into a dwelling unit inside an industrial building Carrying a mixed bag of ambivalence and possibilities her new independence shares the upsides and downsides of a subsistence living in the enclave of artists and musicians where the strains of life dissatisfaction with the government and an everlooming threat of eviction are tempered by a healthy dose of optimism and humour The habitat of Fish and company may not be the land of la dolce vita but its an oasis of dreams in a desert of reality however transient and haphazard