Synopsis

America. Some time in the future. All private expression of sexuality is illegal. There are plenty of public "sex spots" if you happen to feel the urge. The blond and brawny youths in the LUV Patrol hunt down violators who still try to have sex behind closed doors.

Mia can hardly believe it when her father is arrested for an illicit affair. He can only tell her that "true love" made him do it. Mia resolves to find the strange thing he calls love. She hunts high and low for the meaning of this odd concept in a consumer society run amok. The three sections of her search – Wonder, Faith, and Joy – follow her father's description of love. On her fun-filled journey she discovers the wonders of consumerism (a colony of mall-dwellers, a close encounter with a utopian visionary, and a musical dance number in a supermarket), the co-option of faith (in religion and in heroes, meeting JFK on the grassy knoll and Miss USA in the Cotton Bowl), and the duplicity of joy when she experiences the emptiness of married life with the captain of the LUV Patrol. The story weaves its way through a wonderland of pop culture punctuated by candid interviews, montage sequences, fake TV commercials, and lots of entertaining treats. There's music, there's dancing, there's a car chase!

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Posted by Deborah on 06/25/06 | Comments (0)