This film is a scrambled narrative that illustrates, in soap opera fashion, life in Lower Manhattan in the '70s and at the same time dramatizes questions about the nature of cinematic representation. "Split Decision" is a boxing term used when the judges declare one fighter to be the winner by non-unanimous vote. Here, the fight is between the films main characters seen intermittently in a bar, negotiating a 'pick-up', and at home, breaking up in a domestic quarrel. The fight is also in the telling, between modes of conventional and radical representation.