 Explores Confucius s observation that "The way out is via the door." Archival footage of people from the 1930s and 1940s mixes with odd stories told by a narrator s voice: the stories take us into the Mohave Desert, into the locker room of frolicking boys (with a pitch for the salubrious effects of goosing), and into storms with a man who drives with his dog into the center of whatever bad weather is within miles. What is understood? What is decoded?