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Polly (Sheila McCarthy) is a self-described "unsuccessful career woman" who works part-time as a girl Friday for a temp agency. Her lack of success is really a lack of motivation. She would much rather ride her bike around Toronto taking pictures...
...Polly's temp jobs is at a gallery where she works for a beautiful French woman she refers to as The Curator. Polly admires The Curator's elegance, the way she is "so serious, even when she laughs...
Poor Polly. She's 31 going on 13, a gamine klutz working as a temp, famished for experiences that will match her soaring fantasies. She takes photographs and records herself on videotape; she is her own and only pal, admirer and shrink. Polly (Sheila McCarthy) needs to find a heroine -- say, the supersoignee curator of an art gallery (Paule Baillargeon). Then she needs to feel betrayed by this designated goddess so she can finally locate her strengths...
...going to Chicago to act. "It sounds much more amorphous," Gasser understates. "I think if you were really realistic about it and looked at the big picture, it would be too frightening." In Chicago she is going to try to teach acting to school children, look for temp work and the ever-ready waitressing jobs...
...free-lance professionals see plenty of advantages to temp work. Louise Quintard, a 1982 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Law School works as a part-time attorney while she recovers from a back injury. Says Quintard: "This has been a godsend...