The tableau unfolds inside of a dingy motel room on the outskirts of downtown Los Angeles. Two women, long accustomed to operating on the fringes of society, wallow in the grim ambiance supplied by smoke-stained walls and a cloudy mirror placed next to the king-size bed on which they are sitting. "Looks like they grabbed that thing out of a strip club dressing room." one woman comments to the other as she nods toward the long, narrow, scarred mirror which bears splashes of graffiti written in various colors of ink. Her associate responds by gagging her with a strip of black tape and then sh... Show more