 Chicago, Illinois, October 1969. Frankie tries to adjust to her new life back in her home town when she gets caught up in an incipient revolution by a group of black urban revolutionaries in the wake of the Chicago Seven Trial. At China Beach, McMurphy receives a request from Dodger who s back in the country helping to build a hospital for Montagnard tribesmen with help from a elderly relative and former nurse named Ilsa.