Cajun filmmaker Louis Leger and attorney Dolores Arceneaux join forces in the Cajun prairie community of Pointe Noire in an effort to save the life of Joel Richard, a falsely accused Cajun man on Louisiana's Death Row.
A destitute artist, sex worker, and radical feminist writer drops out of grad school in 1960s New York and drifts into the orbit of Andy Warhol's Factory as the author of the anti-male SCUM Manifesto. As her paranoia, brilliance, and rage compound, the story arcs toward the June 1968 attempted assassination that would briefly make her infamous, in a portrait of outsiderdom, ideology, the limits of the Factory, and rebellion without an outlet.