The Virgin Islands, 1969. Manson and Altamont signal the end of the free-love era. Sea Care, a controversial marine biology lab, has been recently stripped of its government funding. Maya Lee, the only straight-edge girl in the hippy-run collective, is left to oversee the facility during Christmas break. Desperate to make a break-through in her communication research, she resorts to a radical experimentation technique; doing acid with one of the bottlenose dolphins.