Director Joseph Marzano described his feature as "concerned with three young men caught in the vortex of this 20th century country of the blind. True fence straddlers, but men outside the world at large, they seem to belong nowhere in that they reject the life of both square and beat as anti-life. Yet each exists in his own way as an eternal cry in the night for betterment and each senses the profound loss of something he has never had (but perhaps glimpsed once, far away in early youth), a magic golden-time and all the beauty and loving in the world."