A couch can’t betray a woman like a man can. Don’t be so sure!
--Elizabeth Appell,
Screenwriter
Starring Karen Black and Deborah Fink
This is a story about Searcher, a woman who falls in love with a couch.
Searcher suffers from four failed marriages. She sublimates her desire for furniture instead of men. Steeped in a hallucination, Searcher communes with her dead mother who passes out warnings from the bathtub where she drinks wine and touches up her bloody wrists.
“Settle down, deary, and find a good man,” Mother warns. “Waking up alone is like perpetual winter.”
Disregarding her dead mother’s advice, Searcher continues her quest to satisfy her needs. In an antique shop she becomes desperately attracted to Couch, a handsome hunk with big bolsters and muscular arms. She brings him home. Once he (Couch) enters her world, she becomes so obsessed, he consumes her.
Moral of the story: Don’t bring home strangers. They can be dangerous!
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