Informal portrait of the Canadian poet Leonard Cohen, who was 30 at the time. Cohen was born in Montreal, but at the time of the film he lived on a Greek island. The film was made during one of his brief visits to his home town, where he regularly returned to ‘renew his neurotic affiliations’. In Montreal Cohen receives an enthusiastic welcome; not just on stage, where he declaims his verses, but also at home, as the black sheep of a family in which, as he says himself, only his grandfather displayed similar talents. Cohen mainly reads from his works A Spice Box of Earth and Flowers for Hitler.
