"Am I going to die?" Eighteen-year-old Mary Jane Bailey is sprawled on her back in a weed-choked field, bleeding from a cut on her forehead, when she asks that question to the man in a sharkskin suit standing over her holding a straight razor. It is 1968. Jane is both a student and snitch. A federal agency asks her to keep her eyes open and report on potentially violent activities at Cal State Long Beach. For reasons even she doesn't understand, Jane agrees. Go with her as she encounters vicious thugs, police and potheads, goes to a beach party, where she takes midnight swim through the red tide, all the while trying to infiltrate a radical group and establish whether they're as dangerous as they seem. And, the man with a straight razor standing over Jane? He answers her question with a single word. "Yes."
