 Not only are people a product of their time and their environment, they are also a product of the technology which frees their time, their perceptions, and their relationships to clear new ground. Filmed in the style of a silent film, which itself establishes its own guidelines, it allows the film to explore the realm of the possible in man s growth beyond civicly established and guarded boundaries. With all of the appearances of an original silent film, "Silent" brings together in one film the multiple genres of the silent era and its stars to reveal the driving need for change, and the trauma of doing so.