It follows the life of Heathcliff, a mysterious gypsy-like person, from childhood (about seven years old) to his death in his late thirties.

Even when I wasliving like a gypsy, running from movie to movie, living out of a suitcase, Ithink I always had a dream of this family life, a vision of it off in thefuture.

And like so many other Gypsy children, they faced bullying.