This feature documentary on the great Beat iconoclast and author of Naked Lunch keys in on previously unseen footage of his October 1983 reading tour of Denmark. Intercutting interviews with friends and associates from his later years with an intimate look at his Lawrence, Kansas, domocile—home for the last 20 years of his life—Words Of Advice briskly catches William S. Burroughs as the elder statesman of the counterculture, a writer who transformed into a master performer whose quest for alternatives to practically everything became a transcendent aesthetic adventure.