The father escaped the Soviet Invasion of Budapest and now runs a Hungarian restaurant that is not doing well financially.

The older son is involved in the counterculture, gets kicked out of college, buys a motorcycle, starts dating a Maoist, and is also disowned by his father.

[2][3] Ben Kallen praised Neil Young's cameo performance in the LA Weekly's collection of reviews, but found the film clichéd.

Michael Sragow of The San Francisco Examiner found the screenplay "over-stuffed" and "strident.

[7] Time Out says "Kovacs' episodic attempt to evoke the trippy, dippy and momentous days of '68... finally peters out in a bathetic happy resolution of sorts.