 Jack Kerouac was a Beat Generation writer who took the nation by storm upon the publication of his novel On the Road. Kerouac s legacy and influence are explained via interviews with Kerouac s friends and contemporaries such as William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Huncke, and Edie Parker. Narrator Peter Coyote reads sections of Kerouac s (mostly autobiographical) books as an actor recreates scenes from Kerouac s life.