People relate to each other and the public on the three floors of The Housing Works Bookstore Cafe.  Gradient Haircuts follows 20-plus PeopleCharacters and a chicken from the first floor (full of mundane interactions and a symphony of overheardness) to the first basement (full of absurd vignettes about our insides) to the sub-basement (full of insides exploding via slug sex, Gainsbourg homage, frightening dances, overt creepiness and pitch blackness).