There is an infinite line of cars on the rainy highway, made up by 300 thousand young people heading to the Montana Rock Festival ("). Flocks of birds appearing on the sky cast an ominous shadow on the crowd ("). In one of the cars sits József who fled from Hungary to New York City in 1956 and who is searching for his also immigrant wife, Eszter who travelled to the festival in spite of her husband's disagreement. On the way, he picks up a hitchhiker, the Boy whom he provokes because of his homosexuality and then throws him out of his car. He talks about Eszter and their love to a strange woman who offers him to marry for a couple of days. Eszter materialises in a vision ("). As József arrives to the festival, meets several of his acquaintances including Manuel but can't find Eszter ("). The exhausted József falls into sleep where Eszter finds him but doesn't wake him up. She leaves with her American friend, Beverley, and they witness in the drugged crowd as during a riot one of the Hells Angels contracted as security stabs a knife in the heart of a black boy called Meredith Hunter. József hears Eszter's scream, sends a message to her but she refuses to meet ("). The circumstances of the murder are described by a Witness whose personal story is also revealed.