Despite various resonances with Hitchcock's movies, the film essentially has little narrative.   It is about misconstruing information and has an obsessive quality, loosely following the performers of Kaplan.   There is an uneasiness about who or what is real and also there are implied connections between intimacy, desire and violence.   It acknowledges the fact that there are two live performers and these people have a relationship to each other both musically and intimately.   The film often concentrates on hands and is generally shot from the point of view of the voyeur.

There are some similarities between an audience member and a voyeur.   Generally both are watching or studying other people for their own gain, be it sexual excitement, cultural enlightenment or some other reason.   Often they will be watching from a supposedly unobserved vantage point - the darkened auditorium or the hidden telescopic lens - and the people they are watching often continue what they are doing without acknowledging the 'watcher'.   An important difference could be that the voyeur's subject is unaware of the scrutiny whereas an audience's focus generally is.