Waiting for the Revolution is basically a love story set in a time of political and social unrest in America that begins in Oaxaca, Mexico, and moves to a back-to-the-land hippie commune in British Columbia, Canada. There, at the beginning of the 1970s, Thomas Weber, a dropped-out Chicago journalist, and his wife, Angela, play out their troubled relationship among political dissidents seeking a counterculture alternative to the "straight" society they've rejected.