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Young British director, Barney Piatts-Mills, looks at the generation gap. He films from the youthful side of the gulf, but this time with a difference. He is not out to distinguish "them" from "us", or to wave banners for an alternative society. Instead, he has concentrated significantly on the mess people make of their own lives, rather than the restrictions imposed upon them by an environment or social class.
The story involves a boy, about 20, with literary aspirations, and a rather spoilt girl from a fairly well-off family, who works as a secretary for the boy's literary agent. They fall in love, live together, and spend an idyllic time in a cottage in the Scottish countryside, trying to escape parental pressures and the responsibilities of the boy's career.
Abandoning the didactics of the "youth revolt", the film implies that people should be left to work things out for themselves, to find their own way, their own private road.