Deborah Fleming

Without Leave Deborah Fleming

Without Leave chronicles the stories of two alienated young people during 1967-70-David, who goes AWOL from the Navy where he'd hoped to find training and focus for his life but finds only boredom and disillusionment during deployment on an aircraft carrier and an artist, Diane, who drops out of college after a brutal rape and the death of the black man she loved-who meet and fall in love in the Haight-Ashbury region of San Francisco in 1967 only to find they cannot escape their past: David cannot be free while a fugitive and Diane cannot be free in a segregated society at war with itself.