It's San Francisco in 1957, and also an American master piece is put on trial. Howl, the movie, clutching this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the turbulent life events which led a new Allen Ginsberg to get his authentic voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), along with mind-expanding cartoon which echoes the startling originality of this poem itself. Each 3 coalesce in a hybrid vehicle that brilliantly catches a pivotal birth of a counter culture.