Dani és Christian egy fiatal amerikai pár, akik a szakítás szélén állnak. Egy családi tragédia azonban összetartja a fiatalokat, a gyászoló Dani pedig csatlakozik Christianhoz és barátaihoz, hogy együtt vegyenek részt egy varázslatosnak ígérkező fesztiválon egy elhagyatott svéd faluban. Azonban a gondatlannak ígérkező kikapcsolódás a végtelen napsütés földjén baljós fordulatot vesz, amikor a helyiek meghívják őket egy ünnepségre.
Jenny, a süket lány San Franciscóba szökik, hogy megkeresse az eltűnt bátyját. A hírek szerint Steve hippi lett, és valahol a város híres hippinegyedében, Haight-Ashburyben él. Az egyik kávéházban Jenny találkozik Stoneyval, aki megígéri neki, hogy segít megkeresni a testvérét, akit különböző rock and roll zenekarokkal látott. Stoney és a haverjai hamarosan egy igazi hippi csajt csinálnak Jennyből. Együtt merülnek alá Haight-Ashbury pszichedelikus, tudattágító világába, felkeresve a törzshelyeket, ahol Steve megfordulhat. Jenny hamarosan rájön, hogy milyen rohadt és romlott világba csöppent.
A young girl relates what happened during her first LSD trip, when – among other things – her food began talking to her.
A police captain is caught between businesses operating on the Los Angeles Sunset Strip who don't like the punks hanging out, and his belief in allowing the kids their rights. But when his daughter gets involved with an unruly bunch, his attitude starts to change.
A topless dancer attracts, seduces, then murders the men she sleeps with. She does it with a twist, however; she kills them with garden tools.
CBS TV news special hosted by Harry Reasoner explores the way-out world of the Hippies and the Haight-Ashbury psychedelic 1960s LSD scene. Footage of LSDs users experiencing bummer trips. The Diggers, the Oracle and cool street and Golden Gate Park scenes with hippies tripping out. The Grateful Dead are interviewed and are shown performing "Dancin' in the Streets" on a flatbed truck in Golden Gate Park. The Hippie Temptation!
The dangers of LSD are driven home to teenagers in this classroom training film, which is "narrated" by an LSD tab. The "tab" tells kids that he is "a depth charge in the mind!" and various teenagers are shwn babbling about their LSD experiences. "Experts" are presented who warn that LSD makes kids "paint themselves green" and has various other horrible side effects, the most serious of which is that it gives users a police record, and that there is "no known way of getting your fingerprints out of a police file once they're in there."
A group of directionless, bored, drug-using teenagers get involved in a cult, resulting in a murder.
In the early 1970s, a group of young volunteers, the Free Youth Clinic of Winnipeg, operated a "crisis bus" to rescue young people experiencing bad drug trips, usually from LSD.
A naive young college student, who is majoring in chemistry, is persuaded by her roommates and a would-be drug dealer to make LSD for them, and she winds up getting caught up in the "acid" lifestyle.