Evergreen, near the Oregon/California border, is a different town than the last time Clifford Hickey visited, only a year ago. Then it was an Eden, a garden of peace and delights, of music and lovely hippies sharing all they had. Now it's the site of a range war. Bikers have descended upon the place to poach from the hippies' marijuana plantations. And a home town boy gets murdered the very night Clifford arrives.Clifford, a recent college graduate, and his adopted brother Alvaro, a gifted musician who hasn't yet adjusted well following a tour in Vietnam, are scheduled to perform at the Evergreen folk festival. But when sheriffs crash the brothers' reunion at Alvaro's camp in a redwood forest, Alvaro runs.In the effort to clear his brother, who is charged with the murder of a sheriff's nephew, Clifford makes deadly enemies of a gang of outlaw bikers led by a tiny sociopath. When Clifford seeks help from hippies living in Evergreen's communes, they shun him....