Three and a Half

The story of one house in three different eras Where 50 years ago it was divided between a school and an apartment in which a young boy struggles with the pressures of prepubescent school life coupled with being compelled to share a tiny room with his paralysed disconsolate grandfather Who in turn has devious plans for the childs 12th birthday which happens to fall on a leap year The same building 20 years later becomes home to a brothel where a young unexploited concubine is dealing with her selfproclaimed first client who has a strange inability to fulfil his physical desire unless obligated to the duress of a transaction to do so Now 30 years later these same walls surround a sublime home which belongs to a soulstirring 75 year old couple who love laugh and dance together They whisper the secrets of time forgone and seemed to have overcome the undying need for love and escape which seems to have plagued the inhabitants of this house in the past