Characters' ideals contradict reality. Set in San Francisco during the 1970s, the play depicts a couple thrown together when Felix spies on Doris as she turns a trick. He tells her landlord. She gets evicted. She pounds on Felix's door at 2 a.m. and moves in.
Characters supercede the story.
Doris is a high school dropout who gets angry when people use big words. Felix is a neurotic intellectual who uses vocabulary to keep people away. Doris expresses herself through her sexuality. Felix feels sex is an animal instinct. This doesn't stop them from falling in love, more or less.