THAT DAY

On March 27, 1970, the "Jim Morrison Film Festival" was organized at the "Queen Elizabeth Theater" in Vancouver.

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The event organized by "Poppin Magazine" provides for the broadcast of "HWY: An American Pastoral", a film of about 50 minutes in which Morrison slips into the shoes of a serial killer hitchhiker. The documentaries "Feast of Friends" and "The Doors Are Open" are also on the program, as well as the music video for "Break on Through" and a promotional video for "The Unknown Soldier" directed by Mark Abramson and Edward Dephoure.

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Jim sees this evening as the first opportunity for his work as a filmmaker to be rewarded. However, following a hearing in Phoenix, Arizona for which he must appear following poor behavior on board a plane a few months earlier, Jim is forced to cancel his participation in the event...