With Bated Breath asks questions about memoryhow and why it plays such a prominent role in our lives how time affects it how it fractures how we often reinvent it depending on the situationand why it is that certain things stay with us with a blistering clarity while the shadows of other people and events simply slip away only to reveal themselves again later in our lives when we least expect them.This is the provocative tale of Willy a troubled but charismatic gay kid who flees Cape Breton Island for Montreal with hopes of forgetting a newly broken heart by starting a new life in the big city. There hopelessly awkward and nave caught up in the cynical and brutalizing casheconomy of the citys red light district he retreats ever further into a world of fantasy and anonymity and soon goes missing without a trace. Willy in one way or another has had a profound effect on the lives of the people he has touched.