An autobiographical masterpiece by Patti Smith, icon of the punk movement, poet, and exceptional artist. Patti Smith takes us into the New York of the early 1970s, an era defined for her primarily by her deep friendship with one person: the later world-renowned photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Just Kids tells the moving story of two soulmates who live for and through art, while also painting a captivating picture of a revolutionary era. When Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe meet in the summer of 1967 in New York, they are both 20 years old and searching for a free life as artists, without a penny to their names. An intense love story begins, which later evolves into a deep friendship. From Brooklyn, they move to the Chelsea Hotel, where Patti Smith meets Janis Joplin and Allen Ginsberg.