Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence, he contacts a reporter to get out the story of the FBIs covert spying, harassment and inciting of violence they then blame on the Left. The skeptical reporter interviews Anita, Hoffmans wife, a single mom on welfare in New York City; Hoffmans attorney, Gerry Lefcourt; and others. As they talk, we see Hoffmans career in flashbacks, from early civil rights organizing through the trial of the Chicago Eight. While underground, as mental illness takes its toll, he meets Johanna Lawrenson, and an odd family develops: Abbie, Anita, their son, and Johanna. Will vindication ever arrive?