A group of high school students are afflicted by an STD known as "teen plague" or "the bug." Symptoms may include flaky skin, rash, growing a new limb or turning into a new kind of creature.
Set in a small, rural Minnesota community in the early 1960's, asthmatic 11-year-old Reuben Land observes exceptional events taking place in his family while under the care of his nurturing and otherworldly father.
A chronicle of the racially motivated serial killings that took place in San Francisco during the early 1970s, and the two detectives who looked to solve the crimes.