Frank's firstfeature-length film is a portrait of the intertwining lives of poetPeter Orlovsky, his catatonic schizophrenic brother Julius, and AllenGinsberg, with whom they live. Moving between color and black-and-white,the film attempts to describe the inner and outer worlds of Julius, butit is equally about Peter, his frequent frustration at his brother'sseeming coldness, and their friend Ginsberg. It is an experiment instyle, being in part a spontaneous film in which the "actors" playthemselves, and in part a planned, scripted and enacted work (whenJulius disappeared during the four years of intermittent shooting, JoeChaikin was brought in to portray him). By film's end, Julius, afterundergoing shock treatments, offers his first and only comments-and theyare on the film itself: "The camera," he says quietly, "seems like areflection of disapproval or disgust or disappointment or unhelpfulness,unexplainability, to disclose any real truth that might possibly exist."