Ross is systematically undermining Vicki's selfworth. As the play unfolds, both couples, the writers Joy and Godfrey and actress Vicky with her zoologist Ross are finding some creative solutions to their gendered problems. Art is the key to their solutions. We see similar explorations in The Girl Who Saw Everything. Liz, a feminist writer who decides to leave Sydney in favour of the Blue Mountains, needs to clear the slate.
Daily changes go unnoticed.
She wants to be able to see a significant change in her physical appearance. Just as Liz has not entirely owned her life, Saul's style of painting is not entirely his own. He recycles or appropriates other successful painters. Gaz is a frustrated artist and through the radical upturn of his world, he finds the opportunity to start from scatch and with that finds peace in his life. The catalyst for the sudden upheaval of their lifes is an accident in which a young girl, who had been gang raped, is killed in a car accident.