Torn between the two, Karen leaves Montreal to join David on a commune while Jesse travels to Chicago for the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
"[3] "Beside the modest and very Canadian self-questioning of Prologue, previous films about drop-outs and the under thirties' revolution in North America begin to appear guilty of over-sell, colour advertisements for a glamorous, swinging and homogenized life-style.
It is not simply that Robin Spry's first feature has the inestimable advantage of being shot in down-beat black and white, but rather that his principal characters are too concerned with working out a tenable way of life for themselves to begin laying very much on other people.
Far from being anti-social, they are shown to possess a highly developed sense of social responsibility and a faith in the principles of a democracy whose practices they deplore."
Unfortunately, its objectivity is very nearly overthrown by the amount of footage devoted to clever actuality material from the hackle-raising Democratic Convention of 1968 in Chicago, an occasion used more imaginatively by Haskell Wexler in Medium Cool but still potent enough in this different context to sway the sympathy in favour of the activists."