Berkeley, California in the mid nineteen seventies is boiling over with rebellion, conflict, and insanity...the Patty Hearst kidnapping; the drugged-out, brain damaged zombies; the Zodiac and Zebra killers, nightly Vietnam War protests; open gunfights between the police and the Black Panthers. Some of the crazies even swear that they have false memory implants, mind locks that block out half their brains, imposed by a galactic police state. Amidst this turmoil, Dorothy Thomas is a graduate student at Berkeley, abused as a child by her uncle, unloved by her parents, and the victim of a lab...