Stuart Hagmann

En un pequeño pueblo de Arizona, la muerte de un becerro desata la alarma sobre una posible epidemia de origen desconocido. El veterinario del pueblo, Rack Hasen, realiza una serie de análisis que envía a la Universidad de Arizona para su investigación. Esta provoca la llegada al pueblo de Diane Ashley, experta en entomología, cuya versión es que la muerte ha sido inducida por el veneno de una araña.

A young couple searches for the cure for the girl's terminal cancer.

Remy is a medical student who has a flair for making his patients comfortable. His genuine concern for the patients in his charge marks him as a hot prospect in his internship program. Pamela works at a children's book publishing company. The two meet via Pamela's brother, who is also Remy's good friend. They fall in love and get an apartment in the East Village of New York. Soon after, the couple begins to indulge in speed and barbiturates. They become heavily addicted. Remy is thrown out of medical school and Pamela quits her job. Remy soon finds himself in debt with the local dealer, Stutter, who introduces his customer to heroin as a revenge for his late bill. Pamela faces the prospect of getting sober at her brother's clinic, but must leave behind a destitute Remy in order to do it.

El filme rescata la emoción de las rebeliones universitarias que sacudieron a Estados Unidos a finales de la década de los 60. Eran huelgas por cambios en las universidades y entre los paradigmas estaban la guerra contra Vietnam, Luther King, Mao, el Che y Robert Kennedy.

This poetic story-documentary shows the death of a tradition as a man reflects on a certain spring of his boyhood. We see a Greek community and culture as it is assimilated into an American city. Filmed in the neighborhoods surrounding the present day site of UIC.