Dogs; the Rise and Fall of an All-Girl Bookie Joint

A comedy about ‘sex, gambling and your mother’. The story is set in present-day New York, Lower East Side. Three young women share an apartment. Leila is 28, sexy and a bit weird. Her roommates are Amina, a black outspoken young lady, and Stephanie, who has dry humour and is involved in a slow divorce. All three are hopelessly unemployed. Leila’s mother has just died. That loss – of her only relative – has destabilised her a little, even if they didn’t talk much anyway and Leila was already not too stable. To pay the rent, they take a fourth person in: the well- intentioned Gypsy who forgets to mention that she is out on demand awaiting a jail term. Then there’s the calm, white Arnie, head over heals in love with Amina. He calls in the help of his brother Sammy, a bookmaker, to help them with job applications. Sammy is the least reliable man on our planet in emotional terms. Leila is immediately obsessed by his work and involves the other girls too in a completely new way of earning a living: crime. The girls study gambling on sport and find out that the teams who win are called ‘favourites’ and those who lose are called ‘dogs’. The girls open a gambling centre in their kitchen.