Prologue

6/8/2025

There is something refreshingly amateur about this drama as it follows the Canadian anti-war activist “Jesse” (John Robb) and girlfriend “Karen” (Elaine Malus) as they gradually evolve into taking differing approaches to their protesting agenda against the war in South East Asia. She’s from prosperous Jewish stock whilst he is more rootless but they rub along well enough until he becomes involved in a fracas that results in him losing his papers. Determined to retrieve them, he hits against a brick wall of officialdom and that, coupled with laid-back lodger “David” (Gary Rader) starts to make both of them reconsider their commitment to the cause and, ultimately, to each other. It’d be unfair to criticise this using 2025 eyes too harshly: it was made at a time when the war was raging inspir