Mark Bittner took a job as housekeeper for an elderly woman in San Francisco, living rent-free in the little house next door. There he became friendly with a flock of wild parrots, feeding them and gaining their trust, until some of them even came inside to live. The experience not only gave him a new respect for the animal kingdom; it also ended in a romantic relationship with a filmmaker who documented the amazingly colorful (in both senses) birds.