There isn't a coward or a victim in the bunch. Rather, they are broad, brazen and bawdy. Body Work is bound to delight. The language nobody speaks is the language of our bodies, the grammar of passion. As the fiery young woman Erin says, Our bodies are another language, but no one speaks it.
People just shout at each other and make noise and call it making love.
This is a swift, cinematic story of our physical selves, our bodies, what they lead us to do, what we do with them. We are drawn to the young lovers, Erin and Bart. Their hunger for each other is simple, dramatic and full of hope. But as Erin and Bart find themselves even against their will getting ever more deeply involved with an older married couple, the nature of erotic life begins to reveal itself as far richer and darker than they had imagined. The older pair, Lida and Hollis Lord, have an erotic life too, of course, but theirs is stained with biography and with history, with all those things that an older married couple take with them wherever they go, even to bed.