Gibraltar

Amy is an artist whose husband is missing after last being seen on his sailboat in San Francisco Bay.
Paralyzed by guilt and grief, Amy brings home a stranger: Palo, who believes Amy may be a woman he
loved and drove away years ago, and has spent years searching for.
As the romantic histories of Amy and Palo gradually unspool, so do other stories of passion, jealousy,
betrayal and yearning from other intense unions. Male jealousy and violence threads through some of
these couplings, including an improbable reunion between an artist and a dockworker and the disturbing
encounter of a tight-wired policeman who can’t accept that his wife has left him for a female lover.
Eventually the roots of Amy’s own turmoil are clarified, in flashbacks of her affair with a man, who is
caring for a beloved wife with advancing Alzheimer’s disease.
Gibraltar is a study of love’s bargains: How much power should amorous passion
exert over one’s soul? And what deals are we willing to make for it?