Triumph of the spider monkey

Abandoned by his mother and by society, scorned and abused, Bobby Gotteson heads for California with a guitar and a dream of writing songs for the movies. But what he finds, at the height of an era of drug-fueled orgies and the legacy of Charles Manson, is a talent for rage and a hunger for self-expression carried out not through a six-string serenade but with the bloody blade of a machete.