The play is a sometimes surreal, often darkly comic look at our obsession with media, celebrity and identity as seen through the eyes of a company of young dysfunctional dancers whose only common interest is a quasi-religious devotion to the soap opera Public Pool. Are "soaps" the new opiate of the people?

« HUGH : I watch Public Pool as well. / ELLA : Really? / HUGH : I confess: I can no longer imagine life without Public Pool. / LINDA : Me too./ ELLA : You too? / LINDA : Yes. I watch Public Pool. I confess. / LUDO : Me too. / JEREMY : Me too. I've got a headache. / NICK : Why not tell you? I watch Public Pool. Me too.»