Director Robert Stone chronicles the bizarre story of Patty Hearst, granddaughter of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. In 1974, Hearst was kidnapped by a fringe domestic terrorist group known as the Symbionese Liberation Army while attending the University of California at Berkeley. She then joined the group, taking the pseudonym "Tania." Hearst would eventually be convicted for helping the group with a bank robbery, and become a poster child for Stockholm Syndrome.