Gone North

Part fiction, part documentary about the California scene in the decades before the laws changed in favor of the medicinal use of marijuana. Cliff was an ordinary kid living in the mountain community of Madrone when an ex-con named Jack comes to grow marijuana. Needing help, he enlists the boy, who at sixteen, has captured Madrone's attention with his musical talent. Hoping to play at the summer festival, when thousands gravitate to the seaside community, he must overcome obstacles at the retreat of rock star Steve Lampson. And for Cliff, those obstacles include falling in love... Jack was fresh out of prison and wanted to grow pot... Steve Lampson was a rock star who owned the land next door. Steve had the money and the women but Jack had something else... another man's wife. Madrone was a quiet town... until the gunshots rang out...