Pioneering documentary filmmaker Ed Pincus (Black Natchez, 1967; Axe in the Attic, 2007) embodied the utopian hopes, fears, and neuroses of the Sixties generation when he set out to create an enlightened, unconventional life through his filmmaking. In this intensely personal memoir, Pincus introduces us to his wife, Jane (a member of the collective that wrote the pioneering feminist healthcare book, Our Bodies, Ourselves), his two children, and assorted lovers and colleagues. As they struggle to find alternatives to cultural expectations regarding love, commitment, intimacy, and creative fulfillment, Pincus’s subjects (himself included) articulate—and sometimes act out—the mundane problems and profound emotional traumas that plague human relations. Pincus’s life and film career are suddenly and irrevocably altered in a disturbing series of events that culminates in a move to rural Vermont and a new life.  MP