Mad Men meets Wild, Wild Country in this TV drama set in the 1960s about a  disaffected college student who joins a group of hippies seeking to escape society, but end up on the wrong side of the law. 

SYNOPSIS:

Pilot - The year is 1966. Mark Waldale is a first-year college student at San Francisco State on a swimming scholarship. After meeting Rainbow, a girl living with a group of her friends and acquaintances in an old Victorian house in the Haight-Ashbury, he decides to quit college and join the hippie “Farmers.” His sister Donna, who goes to Berkeley, gets arrested for protesting on campus and needs his help getting bailed out of jail. After Mark puts up the bail money, Donna tries to get him to join her in political activism, but Mark is more interested spending time with his new love interest. When Mark realizes that Rainbow is also sleeping with “Eli,” a Yale grad, who is manufacturing and marketing LSD, Mark struggles with jealousy and realizes he must come to terms with the free love philosophy of his newfound commune-home. Rainbow convinces Mark to stay with the Famers, but Mark keeps a watchful eye on Rainbow and Eli.

Episode 2 - Eli has decided Harmony should gather naked in Golden Gate Park to celebrate the natural beauty of mankind. During the days leading up to the big event, Mark realizes that twenty-two-year-old Mary is flirting with him. Mark apologizes to Mary’s husband Tom, but Tom is hard to read. Is he angry or nonplussed? Mark tells Mary to stop being so obvious, but she continues to flirt openly with him in front of her husband. Meanwhile Rainbow’s childhood friend Noreen arrives at the Haight-Ashbury house fleeing her violent husband and needing a place to crash. Noreen doesn’t fit in with the rest of the hippie crowd, but she has no where else to go. On the day of the big naked gathering, Mary and Rainbow put LSD in Mark’s coffee. He has a trip that causes him to see God.

Episode 3 – Noreen’s husband Phil arrives looking for his wife, whom he intends to drag back to San Jose. Noreen fights him off, but Phil insists on his rights as a husband. Tom grabs his old gun and shoots Phil in the leg. There is panic. Eli decides they will keep Phil tied up in the basement, high on LSD, until he heals, and then they will get rid of him. Tom is banned from the house for having a gun, which Eli takes from him. Mary is ashamed of Tom. Mark asks Rainbow to leave the commune with him and get married; Rainbow refuses and tells Mark he should go because he is not ready for communal living. Mark and his sister Donna head home for Thanksgiving. Mark has not yet told his parents that he has dropped out of college or that he has joined a commune. When his mother finds out, she is distraught. His father warns him that he could be drafted. Donna says that her brother will simply burn his draft card, sending their father, a WW II vet, into a furious rage. The holiday is filled with quiet despair. Mark returns to Harmony. He looks for Rainbow, but she is sleeping with Eli, so Mark sleeps with Mary instead.

Episode 4 – Phil is still in the basement, tied up and tripping. Mary, Rainbow and Noreen take turns tending to him. They have removed the bullet from his leg. Mark decides to rename himself “Guramar.” To please Rainbow and the others, “Guramar,” begs on the streets of San Francisco to raise money for Harmony. He meets two homeless runaways: Jeff, a gay teen who sleeps with the rich men of Pacific Heights, and Louise, an aspiring poet. When Mark/Guramar returns to the house, Rainbow confronts him about his jealousy and says she has told Eli that she thinks he should be banned from the house. Guramar storms out. Then, with Jeff’s help, he hotwires a car. He and Jeff head off down the coast. Tom returns to the house with a shaved head and supplicates before Mary, who takes him back into her arms.

Episode 5 – Mary and Noreen bicker about the duty of taking care of Phil, which involves feeding him LSD and guiding him on his extended high. Mary thinks Noreen should do it because Phil is Noreen’s husband. Noreen says Mary should do it because her husband was the one who shot Phil. Tom is frustrated that Mary isn’t more available to take care of their twin six-year-olds, Star and Sunrise. Rainbow goes downtown to the Financial District to visit her brother, a successful stockbroker, to ask him for money. As always he gives it to her. Against Noreen’s advice, Rainbow promptly turns the money over to Eli and Tom. Up the coast, Guramar tries heroin with Jeff and then lets Jeff give him a blow job. Afterwards, Guramar cries, telling Jeff about his love for Rainbow. High on heroin, they get into a fight that turns violent. Jeff goes off on his own.

Episode 6 – Guramar is now crashing in Donna’s Berkeley dorm, pining for Rainbow, and helping his sister with her radical activities. Her activist boyfriend William doesn’t approve of Guramar’s hippie life-style because it is apolitical. When William gets drunk, the two men brawl and Guramar decides to go back to the commune and accept Rainbow the way she is. When six-year-old Star breaks a glass, Eli loses his temper and hits the boy. Tom gets upset, but Mary insists that the Eli has just as much right to dicispline the twins as Tom does because they are all “family.” Louise shows up at the commune and asks if she can stay. Tom says yes and, clearly still bitter about the dispute with Mary, leads Louise to his bed.

Episode 7 - Donna and William plot a bank robbery to help secure funds for the revolution they are planning in partnership with the Black Panthers. Guramar goes begging with Louise, who tells him he’ll never have Rainbow to himself and that he needs to give up his possessive ways. He stops at a barber to get a haircut but is drawn outside by a group of merry pranksters. At the commune, Phil has a bad trip and frightens Rainbow; Rainbow runs to Ely for comfort. Star is sick but Mary refuses to take him to a doctor, believing instead in herbal remedies. Louise calls her mother but when her mother answers Louise is unable to speak and hangs up the phone. Eli decides they will all go to a food shelter to help the poor.

Episode 8 - Star now has a bad fever. Tom wants to take his son to a doctor, but, perhaps trying to impress Rainbow, Guramar persuades him to trust in Mary instead. Star’s twin sister, Sunrise, thinks her brother’s illness is her fault because she has been telling a friend that she hates her parents and wishes they could move back to the town they came from. In Berkeley, Donna nearly reveals the plans for the bank robbery to an undercover FBI agent posing as a draft dodger. She is stopped just in time by Brother Jones, one of her Black Panther friends. It is clear there is an attraction between Donna and Jones. At the commune, Rainbow kisses the bound and stoned Phil. Guramar sees the kiss but says nothing.

Episode 9 - Jeff shows up at the commune looking for Guramar. Guramar is out, but Mary offers Jeff a joint and they end up naked together with Mary claiming she can turn Jeff straight. Donna and William and their Black Panther friends stage the long-planned bank robbery. Donna drives the getaway car. William is gleeful till he realizes Donna has fallen for Jones. Rainbow’s brother Ronald arrives at the house looking for his sister - their father has passed away - but Rainbow is busy tending to Phil. Guramar says, “If you love her you will leave her money.” Ronald leaves a blank $10,000 check and says, “tell her not to bother to come to the funeral.” Guramar brings the check to Eli. Eli asks Rainbow if Harmony may keep the money, and she says yes.

Episode 10 – Brother Jones convinces Donna to go with him to Nevada, because the Black Panthers want a war with the Feds, while William refuses to cross state lines. Mary reveals that she is pregnant. She doesn’t know if it’s Tom’s, Guramar’s or Eli’s. Tom sulks as Mark begs Rainbow again to marry him. Eli decides it is time for Harmony to move to a real farm (with the money left by Rainbow’s brother) and to release Phil; the plan is to blindfold him and pack him in a car and drop him off far away. When they untie Phil, he attacks Noreen. This time Guramar uses Tom’s gun and kills Phil. Mary suggests they bring Phil’s body with them and bury him at their new farm, which will allow him to nourish the soil and be born again.