The film embodies the lives of two gay fellow men and a political activist, who is experiencing a daily experience. Both couples went through a lot of hard to learn how to live well with each other but they respect each other.
Argentine writer Manuel Puig's book Kiss of the Spider Woman has a theme that endures throughout all its various incarnations: that of human dignity and compassion surviving within a society that denies it.
Centering on the camaraderie in prison between gay window-dresser and Marxist radical, the film is schematic, and the recreations of old movie scenes are uneven, but the acting is good.
