Following the success of Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper rose stratospherically to Hollywood’s A-list of directors. After successfully capturing the zeitgeist of hippie counterculture, it seemed he could do no wrong. As the sitxites ended, though, so did Hopper’s brief winning streak. After the production of a western being shot in Peru is shut down when one of the cast members is killed, a stuntman decides to stay on location with his prostitute girlfriend and build a hotel in the Andean village. The villagers are deeply affected by the production and decide to make a film of their own with violent consequences. Much to the studio’s dismay, Hopper remained holed up with the footage he shot for months, unable to construct a sensible narrative. Still, the film is flush with ideas about the nature of reality in cinematic representation.