Tragic MagicMeet Melvin Ellington, a. k. a. Mouth a Black twenty something, ex college radical who has just been released from a five year prison stretch having been a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War. It's his first day on the outside, back in New York. Hungry for freedom, desperate for female companionship and reunited with concerned parents, Mouth finds himself haunted by his past. Through a filmic series of flashbacks, we are exposed to Mouth's time