Links on a Chain

<p><span style=color: rgba(10 16 26 1)>A third generation Norwegian Freddie with a gambling addiction and nostalgic for the sixties counterculture inherits the low-budget motel on the city's outskirts. As Freddie struggles with his own problems after leaving the motel maid pregnant he is caught up in the lives of transients; a white supremacist a black ex-con a former mental patient and an unstable Vietnam veteran among others.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(10 16 26 1)>Against the background of the moral majority movement of the 1980s Freddie faces not only a moral dilemma but an existential one.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(10 16 26 1)>The unraveling of his own life and the lives of motel guests force him to reexamines his own middle class values in a society that equates immorality with the marginalized souls like those staying at the Strassen Inn.</span></p>