Big Sur plot
"Some souls never stop searching."
Sudden fame and a self-destructive lifestyle take their toll on Jack Kerouac, following the unparalleled success of his groundbreaking novel 'On the Road'. The once handsome literary hero is now just an alcohol and drug addict, haunted by insecurity. In search of redemption, he leaves New York for an isolated cabin in the Big Sur woods of California. What follows in the next three weeks of August 1960 is both terrifying and revealing. He has to deal with paranoia, sex, withdrawal symptoms, misery and madness.