After a young man gets separated from his friends while in the woods, he falls into a 10-foot deep pit of spikes, impaling him through the leg, and leaving him trapped. He quickly learns that his fall was not an accident.
The music of The Beatles, New York in the 1960s, and the American youth's actions to protest the Vietnam War, form the backdrop for the romance between an upper-class American girl and a poor Liverpudlian artist.