On July 4, 1971, John Pilger, twenty-five years old, bedraggled, with unkempt long hair and beard, returns to Santa Teresa, California, a small town near the coast in upper Southern California. Santa Teresa is the town that John Pilger calls home, although he only began living there when he was in junior high school. Because his father was a doctor and colonel in the army, the family moved often and lived in several states before Pilger's thirteenth...