<p>On the lam for an act of violence against the American government, 25-year-old Jenny Shimada agrees to care for three younger fugitives whom a shadowy figure from her former radical life has spirited out of California. One of them, the kidnapped granddaughter of a wealthy newspaper magnate in San Francisco, has become a national celebrity for embracing her captors' ideology and joining their revolutionary cell.</p> <p>A thought-provoking meditation on themes of race, identity, and class, <em>American Woman</em> explores the psychology of the young radicals, the intensity of their isolated existence, and the paranoia and fear that undermine their ideals.</p>