Two Babyboomer couples, pseudo-radicals from the 1960s, reunite in the 1990s to run a summer weekend, respite camp for troubled kids and their families in Massachusetts.Seltzer Lake is an original screenplay built around the idealized dramatic structure of couples in pairs working together to find a balance in their boundary troubled lives. What we gradually learn is there is a dance, a kind of liberal social waltz, of twos and fours desperately seeking a cranky kind of tolerance for the stresses and strains on parents and young people in modern life. Despite the bourgeois and working class clashes on all levels, the jazzy energy of conflict in the end seems to achieve glimpses of redemption and resolution for those who truly enter the social dance of recovery and find a stronger center of gravity... 
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