The Mountain

1950's America. Since his mother's confinement to an institution, Andy has lived in the shadows of his histoic father. A family acquantance, Dr. Wallace Fiennes, employs the introverted young man as a photographer to document as asylum tour advocating for his increasingly controversial lobotomy procedure. As the tour progresses and Andy witnesses the doctor's career and life unravel, he begins to identify with the institution's patients. Arriving at a California mountain town, a growing center of the New Age movement, the encounter as unconventional French healer who requests a lobotomy for his own daughter, Susan. (Interior XIII)