Peter Dunning is a rugged individualist within the excessive, a hard-drinking loner and former artist who has burned bridges together with his wives and kids and whose solely firm, even on harsh winter nights, are the sheep, cows, and pigs he tends on his Vermont farm. Peter can also be one of the vital sophisticated, sympathetic documentary topics to come back alongside in a while, a product of the Nineteen Sixties counterculture whose poetic idealism has since soured. For all his candor, he slips into drunken self-destructive habits, cursing the splendors of a pastoral panorama that he has spent a long time nurturing.
