Collins Modern Classics - Play It As It LaysOne thing in my defence, not that it matters: I know what nothing means, and keep on playing Somewhere out beyond Hollywood, hollowed out actress Maria Wyeths life plays out in a numbing routine of perpetual freeway driving. In her early thirties, divorced from her husband, dislocated from friends, anesthetized to pain and pleasure, Wheth is a woman who has run out of both desires and motives the epitome of a generation made ill by too much freedom.