Ike Sallas is a former Navy pilot who spent much of his youth in jail due to his social activist protests. As a crop duster in California, he is angered by the birth defects that kill his small daughter. He takes his revenge by dropping sewage on children at carnivals. After finishing his jail time, he goes to Alaska to start over again. His fame follows him. He is known as the Bakatcha Bandit, and everyone believes that he is a freedom fighter of some kind.
In Alaska, Ike works on fishing boats and lives in a small trailer with his friend, Greer. His complicated relationship with his boss, Alice Levertov Carmody, slowly progresses from work-related to romantic. During the Foxcorp takeover of the town, Ike tries the same lines that he once used while.....
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