Cradle in the memories of Elliot Tiber, the comedy is carried out by Demetri Martin like Elliot, a young person who had an important involuntary paper outside so that the Festival of Music and Art of Woodstock of 1969 an historical event. Elliot works like decorator in Greenwich Village, New York, bastion of the first activists of the movement gay, but it has not been able to cut the fastenings with the familiar business, “the Monaco”, a miserly motel located in the Catskills mounts that their authoritarian parents, Jake and Sonia Teichberg, are being able to sink. In the summer of 1969, Elliot does not have more remedy than to leave New York and to return to the town to try to save the motel, that is on the verge of being obstructed by a bank. One finds out that the City council of the near town of Wallkill has retired the permission for a music festival, and calls to the producer Michael Lang, of Woodstock Ventures, to convince the promoters that they can remain in the familiar motel. Of step, Elliot presents/displays to Lang its neighbor Max Yasgur, the proprietor of a milk farm of 240 hectares of land. The organizers of Woodstock do not take in invading the Monaco to organize the arrival of the means million people that would go to territories of Yasgur to participate in “the three days of peace and music in White Lake”.
With a little aid of its friendly, between which it is Devon, that heads a theater company; Billy, a veteran just returned of Vietnam, and Vilma, an ex- ones marinates travestido, and with certain opposition on the part of the inhabitants of the town, between which is the brother of Billy, Give, Elliot will participate in all heart in a experience that changed its life, defined to all a generation. Since then the popular culture never returned to be the same.
