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Tom (Lanning Beckman), an amoral grifter comes to Montreal during the summer of Expo. He picks up Vicky (Astri Torvik), a bored librarian and begins to teach her the ways to steal and swindle. Soon after the relationship between the two develops, Tom finds that his new student threatens his own dominence. Larry Kent's first Montreal feature pursues a free-from narrative style as he examines the failure of the cultural revolution of the 1960s. During the "Summer of Love", Kent presents his audience with two characters who eschew such a utopian ideal. Invited to premiere at the Montreal Film Festival, the film was banned before it opened. Subsequent screenings across the country followed a similar pattern of censorship that ultimately resulted in the film's mutilation. In 2001, a complete version of the film came to light and brought about a national retrospective and reconsideration of Kent's contribution to Canadian cinema.