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Radicalized college co-ed Patricia "Mizmoon" Soltisyk co-founds the Symbionese Liberation Army, a terrorist group, with her lesbian lover and an escaped convict with an obsession for guns and explosives. The group carries out bank robberies and murders in the 1970s and kidnaps heiress Patty Hearst, the granddaughter of American publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst. Soltysik is one of the six SLA members killed in a shootout with the LAPD in the mid 1970s.
20th century musical radical and multi-hyphenate George Antheil has an unlikely friendship with movie star Hedy Lamarr. Despite their day jobs in entertainment, the two possess an intense desire to defeat the Nazis and thus invent and patent a secret communications system in 1941 which sketches out the principle of frequency hopping. Their invention proves crucial to the development of modern communications.