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Towing the line between freedom and anarchy, the documentary examines the lives of a group of people living off the grid and in the desert. In this arid clime, these people live next to an active bombing range, on an abandoned Marine base, known as Slab City. Among the residents, there is: a preacher who is in love with a schizophrenic, a range runner with a family of five and a professor - who is a cerebral alcohol aficionado. As for Slab City's unofficial Sheriff, he shot and killed his stepfather at age six for raping his mother.