Under the scorching sun of the California desert, America’s dark conscience is once again on trial. This unsettling mockumentary by Peter Watkins documents how political repression and McCarthyist paranoia have turned the state into a hunter. Young dissidents and the hippie generation are fighting for survival in the deadly game the system has forced upon them. This relentless manhunt, carried out under the shadow of soldiers and federal authorities, lays bare the dystopian reality rising from the country’s barren lands. As the camera blurs the lines between fiction and reality, it records, in a cold and sharp tone, the system’s methods of silencing dissenting voices.