At San Francisco State College, Nazi group leader Allen Vincent, harasses anti-Nazi demonstrators with racist epithets. Dressed in Nazi regalia and a riot helmet, Allen protests the “impossible” demands of racial minorities for educational equality. He calls for all whites to join the Nazi party so they can defend themselves against Jews and African-Americans. Allen and his followers are greatly outnumbered by the anti-Nazi demonstrators and take refuge in a school building. The police try to tame the crowd, then escort Allen and his men to their cars despite Allen’s protests that his right to freedom of speech is being violated. The crowd chants, “You can’t hide. You’re responsible for genocide.” Sitting in his one-room apartment, Allen recalls his life story. After suffering a nervous breakdown in Soledad Prison, he was checked into a mental hospital and treated with electric shock therapy. When he was younger, his mother died of alcoholism, and he ran away from home but was placed in a forestry camp, where he was often beaten and lived in constant fear. He was later placed in a series of foster homes, reform schools and prisons. Allen claims he severed time because he is a victim of “loneliness.” At a Nazi unit meeting, Allen introduces a man who harangues the group on the dangers of multi-racism. Allen then turns the podium over to another storm trooper, who explains that the group needs to collect money for the electric bill and rental hall fees. He also asks for donations of candles, cleaning supplies and plastic garbage bags. Later, at a rundown home surrounded by rusting automobiles, Allen watches sports on television with a family of Nazi sympathizers. The father dreams of a racially segregated football league that would pit white players against black players. The grandmother trains two small children to give the Nazi salute and indoctrinates them on the dangers of African-Americans and Jews. The whole family laughs when a five-year-old boy yells that he wants to kill blacks and throws karate punches in the air. At the group’s Christmas party, a tree is trimmed with swastikas and Santa wears a swastika armband. Later, Ken McAllister, a Nazi foot soldier and warehouse worker, shows off the arsenal of weapons in his home. He sits with his wife and explains that the U.S. government is creating a racial war by forcing whites to accept blacks in the work force. He insists that even though the Nazi movement is small, it is growing and will inevitably take over. Mrs. McAllister shares her recipe for a Nazi flag cake explaining the trick is melting licorice just enough to bend it into a swastika. They take the cake to the meeting hall to celebrate Adolph Hitler’s birthday, where Allen gives an impassioned speech proclaiming that Hitler’s spirit lives on. In Tracy, California, a former Los Angeles, California unit member, Paul Raymond, has started another Nazi group. He explains the only way to get respect in Tracy is by “cracking heads open.” His brother, Wayne, was a U.S. Marine, but he now hates the military because he feels they fight for a system that represses the white man. Wayne vows to only fight for his race. About one hundred and twenty miles away, in Monterey, California, Staff Sargent Fred Surber, 74th Infantry, U.S. Army, sits in his Fort Ord office and explains he was fined $200 for Nazi party fundraising. At the Suber home, Fred’s young son James admits he only goes to unit meetings to make his father happy, but he hates that meetings are on Saturdays because he wants a day off to ride his bicycle. James is also embarrassed to be the only child at the Nazi meetings and is confused that his schoolmates think he is prejudiced. James shares a story he wrote and illustrated called, “James Surber Becomes Hercules.” In the story, James sees black men working as slaves, and his father tells him that black men are just “chimpanzees.” Back at San Francisco College, the ten men from Paul’s Tracy unit arrive to reinforce the San Francisco unit as they stage another demonstration. Allen briefs his troops that they must not fight unless they are physically attacked. Explaining they will lose the public relations “war” if they use weapons, he gives them permission to fight back using fists. Yelling that it is an honor to die for white power, Allen marches his men through a crowd of angry protesters and screams that the Nazis are the protectors of liberty. Later, Allen explains that in the future there will be no more loneliness. In Tracy, James Raymond says he is fighting for a future where people are not afraid to say what they think. Ken McAllister insists that a police state is needed to establish law and order. Young James Surber believes all blacks will be sent back to Africa and the whites will live happily ever after. His father, disbelieves in the past existence of Nazi death camps but he wishes they were real so he could go to Auschwitz and joyously roll in the dirt.