Shown only three times before in public, HWY is the cult film directed by and starring Jim Morrison, the composer, singer, poet and performer of the rock group The Doors. HWY is his most personal work, hinting at was to be a new phase in his career before it was so tragically cut short. This is what Morrison himself had to say about the film in an interview given to the "Los Angeles Free Press" in 1970: "It's an uncommercial film: too long for a short, and not a feature itself. Fifty minutes. It's an awkward length. There's no story really, no real narrative, except there's a hitchhiker, who - we don't see it but we later assume - that he stole a car. And he drives into the city, checks into a motel, goes out into the night. I had always been fascinated with a story of a hitchhiker who becomes a serial killer. And I set out to make that film but it turned into a different film. A much more subtle fantasy".