The year is 1970, Vietnam War era. Due to the mass anti-war protests, President Nixon introduces an act which authorises federal authorities to arrest all persons who pose a “threat to national security”. In the desert of southwest California, while the a priori guilty members of Group 638 are desperately trying to defend their resistance to the Vietnam War in court, members of Group 637 have been promised liberty if they manage to escape the police pursuit and reach the American flag on the other side of the mountain, 53 miles away. Drained by the heat, the group divides into quitters, fugitives, and those who will try to reach the flag. The famous US film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum described the film as a sci-fi nightmare in documentary form.

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