Description: Sara (Seret Scott), a university professor, spends the summer in a rented house with her artist husband Victor (Bill Gunn). The couple’s summer idyll becomes complicated as Sara struggles to research the philosophical and religious meaning of ecstatic experience and to discover it for herself. When she agrees to appear in a short directed by one of her students, Sara’s search for the “ecstatic moment” and her struggles with Victor’s indiscretions are reflected in the plot of the student film. Performing with Duke (Duane Jones), her charismatic co-star, Sara acts the part of the jealous lover in a film version of the song “Frankie and Johnny.” By the end of shooting, she experiences a moment of profound and shattering emotion that calls her ordered intellectual existence into question. [Milestone Films]