Famed Canadian-American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife was one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Now in his late seventies, Fife is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined to bare all his secrets at last, to demythologize his mythologized life.
vietnam war
infidelity
regret
husband wife relationship
based on novel or book
montreal, canada
flashback
cancer
memory
miscarriage
guilt
death
1960s
abandonment
portrait of an artist
richmond, virginia
old age
filmmaker
documentarian