Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and star to arrive on location.

A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets out…

Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.