Streamers are hapless parachutists who streak to their death because of unopened parachutes. In a barracks are three young, different and individually-realized soldiers. One is a young intellectual another is a street-smart Black and the last, a homosexual. Friends at first, their lives are changed and in various ways destroyed by the arrival of Carlyle. He is a stupid, crude animal aware and obsessed with his victimization as an uneducated Black soldier who will be sent to Vietnam and probable death. Desperately, he wants friends and some recognition. It is his pain and his need for vengeance that drives him beyond control. His emotional and brutal explosion brings destruction to the barrack’s community as our inner furies, if unleashed, would destroy the world.
