In 1978, Hollywood crushed a young Australian filmmaker’s movie about the Sixties, and locked up the negative. Free speech was dealt a blow in an unlikely place.

Throughout the making of the film Mora had been filming his own private Super 8mm sound film home movies of the process, the research, the making of the film. When the crisis hit he filmed his own reactions to the brutal end of the film. These films have recently been found and this NEW DOCUMENTARY explores the behind the scenes of the film that wasn’t.

The film intercuts the private films with some of the key and controversial events of the Sixties that were going to be portrayed in the original film. Unique material that Mora located is now in the public domain and can be seen for the first time. Studio politics and opinion clashed with an artistic vision of an historical period and the generation gap came back with a vengeance. The film documents the political, historical and cultural issues that Mora now believes offended the powers that were.

Free speech is always in danger, the issue always relevant, and this film documents how a film about the liberated Sixties was locked up, never seen and never released.