Constance, who may or may not be dying, writes letters to her friend Elizabeth. Each has ties with other friends who are involved in complex relationships of their own, and who sometimes meet.

Against the Slope of Social Speech is about death, about our ideas of death, about language and speech, about sexual intimacy, about the way we encounter narrative and create it out of the things we observe. About imagination.

This is Ed Bowes' ninth film. In it he continues his ongoing investigations into what and how we know. The shape of our thinking. Into the content, weight, light, and event of pictures. Into the rhythms and meters, words, place and placement of language. Of people who it might be interesting to know.