Written by RudyWurlitzer, Frank's frequent collaborator and Mabou, Canada neighbor,Keep Busy uses both actors and "real people" to portray the lives of anisland community living in shacks, barely surviving a winter. Only thelighthouse keeper has access to a radio and the outside world; he is thekeeper of all information, "alone on top of the island, talking aboutthe weather and how it used to be" (Frank). Wurlitzer has said, "Whatinterested me was questioning where the boundaries of fiction lie andwhere the margins are, how to use reality on one level and a fictionalapproach on the other. They mutate where you use them together."