Looking Down On Paradise

A best-selling author does what he can to suppress and disparage a fellow writer's work.  Unfortunately for him, the Beat Generation writer he targets has enjoyed greater and longer-lasting success than the popular author.  When tasked with turning the now-dead writer's most famous novel into a screenplay, he struggles to be charitable or admit that the other writer might be superior to him.  As a growing smear campaign is directed toward the contemporary author, he also loses his financial, artistic, emotional, and physical anchors.  He tries to understand if the scandal and hate are orchestrated by the dead writer's friends or by the secret service of an American government he has strongly criticized.