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Reversal. Backwards in time. A Steak's life cycle, anti-clockwise. The film begins in Tony Morgan's bathroom, with the Beatles, continues with a de-fried steak, which buys some money, Bach's Goldberg Variations and the rebirth (resurrection) of a cow. The film was a consequence of a heated discussion with Daniel Spoerri about English aesthetic of cleanliness and the French aesthetic of shit.
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Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.

Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor. The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise.