A group of Americans in Northern California in 1984 are struggling with theconsequences of their lives in the sixties still run by the passions of thosetimes s... » 

A group of Americans in Northern California in 1984 are struggling with theconsequences of their lives in the sixties still run by the passions of thosetimes sexual and political which have refused to die. Among them is ZoydWheeler who is preparing for his annual act of televised insanity for which hereceives a government stipend when an unwelcome face appears from out of hispast.An old nemesis federal prosecutor Brock Vond storms into Vineland at the headof a heavily armed strike force. Soon Zoyd and his daughter Prairie go intohiding while Vond begins a relationship with Zoyds exwife and uses Prairie asa pawn against the mother she never knew she had.Part daytime drama part political thriller Vineland is a strange evocation ofa twentiethcentury America headed for a less than harmonic future. «