The Whole of Life

Barbara a fiftyyearold lesbian whose lifespan has taken her through correction homes mental hospitals prisons and bouts of prostitution approached Bruno Moll suggesting that she made a film of her life Moll agrees and hires an actress Serena Way To interpret episodes in Barbaras past Barbara has in mind a Hollywoodstyle bio starring an actress on the order of Susan Hayward dramatically telling her story of a life ruined by bourgeois standards The result is a semidocumentary mixing black and white segments of Barbara and Serena discussing the project with color scenes depicting little stories from the 1950s the heyday of bourgeois existence