Sybil Endicott has been named Teacher of the Year after thirty years of teaching in Dorset, Maine. But an enterprising student has unmasked her as Stephanie Morris, who was charged with being an accessory to the murder of a policemen in New Jersey in 1971. Morris jumped bail, and went underground. This is her story, set against a background of the tumultuous events of the late sixties and early seventies that included the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, the riots that followed, the war in Vietnam and the protests it brought, and the shootings at Kent State.