Multitalented artist and writer Harry Dodge (By Hook or By Crook, Cecil B. Demented) brings to life Olson's innovative story of a butch dyke in San Francisco searching for love and self-discovery. Against a backdrop of stunning 16mm landscape cinematography, this bold, lyrical voiceover film evolves from a lesbian lust story to an inventive documentary delving into explicit reflections on sexual encounters and offering up a quick look at Frank Capra’s 1941 melodrama Meet John Doe before embarking on the fascinating and previously untold history of the Golden Gate Bridge as a suicide landmark. A true San Francisco experience, The Joy of Lifealso includes poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti intoning his ode to the City by the Bay, “The Changing Light,” and features music from legendary poet-painter (and probable Golden Gate suicide) Weldon Kees.