Ang Lee's latest film is based on the memoirs of Elliot Tiber, a young interior designer who inadvertently helped make the Woodstock Festival into a legendary cultural event. A participant in the gay rights movement in Greenwich Village, Elliot (Demetri Martin) is still staked to the family business-a dumpy Catskills motel called the El Monaco. In the summer of 1969, Elliot returns upstate to save the motel from bank seizure. After hearing that a planned music and arts festival has lost its permit from a neighboring town, Elliot offers his family's motel to the festival promoters and enlists his neighbor Max Yasgur (Eugene Levy), who operates a 600-acre dairy farm down the road. Soon a half million people are on their way to Yasgur's farm for “3 days of Peace & Music in White Lake,” and Elliot and his friends are swept up in a generation-defining experience that will change their lives-and popular culture-forever.