Gaver is an actor rather than a reciter and pulls the "text" out of a gold-leaf skull, folds it into an airplane and then tosses it over and over. Scenes of newspaper production and World War II propaganda footage are intercut with this main action, echoing visually the rhythms of the poem.
The criminalist Hannes Bergemann tries to blackmail the city where he spent his youth. After many years returning to the familiar places of his childhood, he hopes to meet again his old friends, especially Fred, Helmuth and Richard, with whom he had a close childhood friendship.
Lauro (Eddie Garcia) is a married man who just loves women. His wife Elena (Gloria Diaz), a beautiful and strong-willed woman is dead set in keeping him from womanizing.
Cüneyt Arkin is war veteran, now using lots of of alcohol to forget terrible wartime memories. But some drug mafia bastards forces him to take double barreled shotgun and show them what angry Cüneyt is capable of.
Stuck in a sexless marriage, a frustrated well-to-do couple agrees to see a female sex therapist. Unfortunately, she only helps escalate the tensions between them.
While ill and experiencing some difficulty in completing the editing of this film, Brakhage was reading the Marguerite Young novel, "Miss MacIntosh, My Darling.
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