Each film deals with similar issues, but focuses them through different struggles and perspectives. Both stories raise similar questions about our current system of higher education. On the morning of April 15, Irene convinces Paula to take a short walk to the post office. They are soon taken off track when they accept an offer from two young men to take an urban canoe ride through the canals downtown. As they make their way back to the post office, the women are repeatedly diverted by numerous encounters with odd characters, reminiscences of past adventures and sidewalk spectacles, such as performances by bands, breakdancers, and a volatile street magician.
TAX DAY follows their daylong vacation around town, in an ode to the pleasures of leisure.