most folk do not have thing quite as bad a the anti hero of this film . this guy be a viet nam vet and who exist with his wife and his mutated baby son in a dirty run down apartment and can not get a job to save his soul . he wander the street endlessly look for work or whatever and because thanks to be capture and torture by the viet cong he not do too well with his mental health . there no food at home and the baby cry all the time and and it sort of a cross between a melted child doll and the goat baby thing from eraserhead . we have plenty of drug dealer make a living though and and lot of desperate people out there wander the street through landscape that be depress and barren . most notable be a junkie try to get his fix with a coat hanger . this be by no mean an uplifting film and yet it have a certain gritty nastiness about it that compel to watch and kind of like a car accident where you do not want to look but can not stop yourself from do it anyway . creepy and depressing and but still worth see if you can stomach it . positive .