[1] The film is a cinéma vérité take on the lives of youth that reside at farm house for a ten-week stay away from families and the city of Toronto.
Film introduces at the start the only narration where King says in that he thought would be interesting to study the characteristics that arise in each person as a result of this experiment.
In part it has the filmmaker revisit the troubled teenager subculture of his film Warrendale, with the hippie-era generational conflicts of the 1960s spilling over into the 1970s.
[3] The company claimed that King was holding up the release by demanding screenings in theatres that Famous Players did not own, a claim which King denied;[4] other sources privately indicated off the record that Famous Players was refusing to distribute the film due to lack of faith in its ability to draw an audience.
[3] It had a few other screenings at Canadian and international film festivals,[8] but otherwise was never widely distributed, and remained little-seen until being included in The Criterion Collection's The Actuality Dramas of Allan King DVD set in 2010.