Drip. A narcissistic love story. - ACE270.2

Man walking along London street. Car being pushed by two boys splashes water from the gutter over his feet. He enters the gate of the Vanity Fayre Guest House, and rings the bell which says "Theatricals Welcome". Cakes and biscuits laid out in a room – next to a bucket into which water is dripping. Ivy moves nervously from chair to chair while a man sleeps upstairs. She is startled by the ringing of the front door bell. The man upstairs is waking up; he starts taking Polaroid photographs of his nearly-naked self, and watches himself on video screens. Ivy dancing by herself to music on the radio. Suddenly a couple burst in doing an exotic Latin American dance. The man outside finds the door key. Young man exercising in the bathroom; he runs a bath; watching himself in the steamy mirror, he sees that man from outside watching him through the glass of the door. They dance together though on opposite sides of the door, then, in identical clothing, toast each other in champagne, and dance together in a "Fred and Ginger" routine. Meanwhile, water continues to drip into the bucket. The man from outside, now labelled as "Ted", arrives at the party and meets the Latin American tango dancers, Ashley and April. They perform some samba steps. The man from the bathroom dances with Ivy. Ted tries to suggest that this relationship won’t work; he changes the music and Ashley and April burst in again. Everyone joins in a conga. Ivy tries to rescue the plates of cakes and biscuits from destruction. The man upstairs tosses and turns. Ted creeps to the bathroom. The young man has drowned in the bath. April stamps on the birthday cake. Ivy surveys the ruins and she and Ted watch water begin to pour into the bucket. They dance together in a daffodil-filled room. Credits.