Synopsis

As a young man in the 1940s, the poet Allen Ginsberg wins a place at Columbia University in New York City. He arrives as a very inexperienced freshman, but soon runs into Lucien Carr, who is blond, blue-eyed, beautiful, brilliant, and a fascinating anti-establishment character. After a while, Ginsberg discovers that Carr only manages to stay at Columbia thanks to a somewhat older man, a teacher, David Kammerer, who writes all of his term papers for him, and seems perhaps to have been an ex-lover of Carr's. It appears that Kammerer is still in love with Carr, but it also appears that Carr is now simply using him. Ginsberg's fellow students in the English department include the rebellious writer William S. Burroughs, already far into drug experimentation. The writer Jack Kerouac, who was a sailor at that time, also meets and spends time with them. Ginsberg takes part in various extreme escapades with this extraordinary group of people.

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