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This drama about an attempt to withdraw from heroin addiction closely follows the attempts of a man and a woman who live together to kick it cold-turkey. The film is graphically shot and realistically told, and there is absolutely no glamorization of lifestyle here. In fact, after getting briefly free of the addition, the lead character finds a forgotten stash of the drug, shoots up, nods off in the bathtub and drowns, providing what one hopes is a cautionary example for the woman of the story.