The Seventies were sexy and sleazy. At the epicenter of it all was Plato's Retreat, the controversial, first-ever swingers club. The year was 1977 and New York City burned in a flurry of heat waves. On the conservative Upper West Side, Plato's embraced adventurous couples who came to dance, to swim, and...to swap. Immediately, Plato's spawned a media frenzy. Of course, this wild party did not last. American Swing brings this enigmatic epic of excess to the screen for the first time.