The plot of the film is based on real events and tells the story that happened in 1944 at Columbia University. After the tragic death of one of the students, fate brings together several young guys - Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. All of them are young students who in the future will become famous writers and the most important representatives of the new hipster movement. But so far they are only young people who are trying to find their place in life. Spanning the whole world, the Second World War, forcing them to live not according to generally accepted patterns, and acquaintance with the teacher Lucien Carr, unlike other teachers, helps them to see the world around them much wider ...