WOLVES is a sharp and darkly funny urban fable that takes place during a long and terrible night at the apartment of Ben and Jack (Ben’s roommate and former boyfriend). Ben, clearly never the most stable of young men, has recently moved from a small town to the big city, where he develops a full-blown paranoia about the place where he lives, which he thinks of as the “deep, dark forest,” and an outrageous fear of the “wolves” that prowl it. To taunt the needy Ben and to prove that the city isn’t what Ben imagines it to be, Jack brings home a “wolf” from a bar one night. Though a series of misunderstandings and mishaps things turn violent (an axe is involved) and it’s up to the icily glamorous and bitingly funny female narrator to guide us through to the end of this postmodern fracturing of the Red Riding Hood yarn.
