In summer of 1965 Surfer boy George Jr. 'Stick' is enlisting as volunteer for Vietnam and academic weakling Pirate, who intended to dodge a draft as drifter, suddenly faces the pregnancy of his lifelong true love Sunny. Spoiled 'princess' bitches because her parents want her to attend UCLA.Calvin, the only black mate, lives in the poor quarter Watts, where the majority of his race plunders and attacks everyone, including class poet Michael Finnegan, whose family treated Calvin as an adopted son.