A suburb of Orange County, California, in 2013. The never-ending and pointless American war on drugs has become mixed up with the war on terrorism. Detective Bob Arctor, reluctant specialist in undercover missions, is forced to snitch on his friends Jim Barris, Ernie Luckman, Donna Hawthorne and Charles Freck. When he is asked to spy on himself, Arctor goes down the inevitable road of absurdity and paranoia, where loyalty and identities are undecipherable.