Fatuously, he middle manager calls himself "a happily married man," and explains that the apartment belongs to "some schnook that works in the office.C.Fields), a hapless, henpecked husband and the unemployed town drunk, lives with his shrewish, nagging, hypercritical wife Agatha (Cora Witherspoon) and annoying family in the sleepy town of Lompoc, California.Underwater, in a forest of undulating water plants that becomes a harem, exotic gold and black fish with long flowing tails create beautiful patterns in an aqua ballet.All across the land, huge bonfires were lit.Oh, there was a marvelous celebration.People danced and they played games, and they dressed up in costumes, hoping to ward off the evil spirits, especially the boogeyman.In his radically non-linear, hybrid film, Griffith simultaneously cross-cuts back and forth and interweaves the segments over great gaps of space and time - there are over 50 transitions between the segments.