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Toiling Under the Sun
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ISBN13: 9798218816230
Publisher: Portobello Road Publishing
Published: Nov 1 2025
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Publisher: Portobello Road Publishing
Published: Nov 1 2025
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Meaningless! Meaningless!
says the Teacher.
Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.
What do people gain from all their labors
at which they toil under the sun?
- King Solomon Can there be real meaning in this life? Is there meaning in beauty? Do our lives have value? Are we toiling in vain? These are the questions haunting Sami, a documentary filmmaker commissioned to capture the counterculture movement in 1967 California. Sami is submerged in her work, yet tortured by her own mind. Battling mental illness, she self-medicates by getting lost in aesthetics, especially paintings, and allowing herself to be hypnotized by the mystical meaning she senses in the Santa Ana winds. She is simultaneously seduced and disenchanted by the ideology of her generation-a generation that rejects the beliefs of middle-class values. Will she find the meaning she so desperately seeks, or will her search consume her completely?
says the Teacher.
Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.
What do people gain from all their labors
at which they toil under the sun?
- King Solomon Can there be real meaning in this life? Is there meaning in beauty? Do our lives have value? Are we toiling in vain? These are the questions haunting Sami, a documentary filmmaker commissioned to capture the counterculture movement in 1967 California. Sami is submerged in her work, yet tortured by her own mind. Battling mental illness, she self-medicates by getting lost in aesthetics, especially paintings, and allowing herself to be hypnotized by the mystical meaning she senses in the Santa Ana winds. She is simultaneously seduced and disenchanted by the ideology of her generation-a generation that rejects the beliefs of middle-class values. Will she find the meaning she so desperately seeks, or will her search consume her completely?
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