A group of bored hippies decide to play war with the neighborhood kids. When they chase one kid into his home, the boy's father (Anthony Quinn) takes their toy guns for real weapons and assumes he's being abducted. The group's leader, Taurus (George Maharis), runs with the idea, and decides to hold the old man for a $200,000 ransom. But when no one agrees to pay up, the old man decides to work with his abductors to get back at his friends and family who refused to help him.