Lee (Michael Paul Chan) who "doesn't give change". D-FENS begins to crack and starts to fight back against the every day "injustices" he encounters on his journey home. The film has a story running in parallel about Detective Prendergast (Robert Duvall); a desk-bound cop who is about to retire. He's retiring for his wife's (Tuesday Weld) sake, and obviously isn't happy about it. The cop tracks down D-FENS and in the final scene..... Rob Hartill

William Foster, AKA D-FENS (Michael Douglas), is an unemployed, divorced engineer in the defense industry who's reached his boiling point. First he finds himself in gridlock, which he deals with by abandoning his car. He subsequently happens across an unhelpful convenience store clerk named Mister Lee whose prices D-FENS 'rolls back', by demolishing theabhorrence felt by a woman for an abusive man.

If a man abuses a woman, she is furious and feels nothing but contempt for him.

Shahubai sings that she can be as ferocious as a tigress, like her brave father, who is like a tiger. And the malicious taunts of a foolish man inflame her with rage.

She tells the man that his desire is evil and reprimands him as severely as she can. Cursing him, she says: ‘When Yama, the god of death, comes to fetch you, he will treat you so badly that your end will be a torment’. Her severity seems to reflect the extent of the vicious verbal abuse she suffered from the man.

Shahubai goes on to sing that the vile, wicked man said something abusive to