Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
I can't say whether Martine Dugowson read those words of Henry Brooks Adams before beginning the script for this fanciful parable of friendship, but they certainly apply to the work she has produced. The film follows the entwined lives of Mina and Ethel, two souls both alike and different, who bond to each other as girls and remain steadfast until their lives diverge from parallel tracks. As long as they are beyond the social pale, they are fast friends. Unfortunately, the same might be said for the film. Mina as a rabbinical student, Ethel as a vamp.