Angela is the paradigm of free and liberated femininity. An altruistic, intellectual, and sexually independent woman, she chooses her partners the same way she selects a book from her shelf: with curiosity and delicacy. She is an illegal immigrant living in an attic in the heart of Los Angeles, a Nicaraguan with a violent past she is trying to escape. Now she is a nurse, caring for her loved ones, the helpless, those who truly need her.
Angela is a pragmatic woman who lives only in the here and now, and she makes this clear to Bill, a former American banker tainted by capitalist prejudices and a way of life based on hypocrisy, who crosses her path when she tries to help him and give him shelter while he is on the run from the authorities accused of fraud. Bill surrenders to Angela's freshness, eloquence, and spontaneity, while the two spend hours chatting and philosophizing about life, amidst acts of love that are foreign or even embarrassing to him. Angela exposes Bill to a no-holds-barred intimacy that, little by little, leads him to love.
"Now & Later" normalizes sexuality as something to be considered everyday. And it shows it without strings attached, without censorship, freely. Meanwhile, the cavern of critics continues to consider this work reprehensible and immoral due to some explicit sex scenes that, in reality, have nothing to do with pornography. This is the kind of hypocrisy Angela refers to several times when she comments on the conservative Western way of life. “Now and Later” doesn’t pretend anything, but it stands as a valid quotation of the social clichés of modern America, using a slow-paced style that invites light reflection as bodies merge and obfuscation disappears.