An attention starved misfit gunman hell bent on starting a "war" with the establishment, infiltrates a student protest with Julie trapped as one of the hostages. Also among the hostages is her humanities teacher, who has a heart condition but left her medication in her car.

Carl Betz plays a disillusioned solid citizen who becomes involved in the death of a hippie girl. He's seeking the girl's killer while his heartsick daughter searches desperately for him.