The beatnik generation was a social movement of young people in the 1950s and 1960s which stressed artistic self-expression and the rejection of the mores of conventional society. The beatniks were associated with the beat generation, and were the ultimate in coolness. They were kids seeking an answer - and to the beat generation the answer seemed to be found in inaction, in non-feeling, they couldn’t care less. But face a beat cat with reality, face him with murder, and what happens…?