San Francisco in the 1960s is already crazy enough when mysterious shafts of blue light touch the lives of random strangers.

San Francisco in the sixties is already crazy when mysterious shafts of blue light touch the lives of random strangers: a suicidal grad student who needs a history to chronicle; a scam artist turned prophet; a violent junkie driven mad by truth; and a little girl growing up very, very fast. They may have come from different places, but now they're all on the same trip -- because under blue light nothing looks the same.