Chronicling the lead up to America’s notorious Tate/La Bianca murders.

Nearly 40 years after he masterminded the Tate/La Bianca murders, Charles Manson remains an icon of evil and a subject of fascination the world over.

At the heart of this obsession lies the question: How did one man convince a group of hippies – mostly young women from good middle American families – to murder complete strangers in such a brutal fashion?

This feature-length docudrama, tells the story of the final days leading up to and climaxing with the Tate/LaBianca killings. This is the view from inside Manson’s cult, ‘The Family’ – a hippy commune thriving during the 1969 Summer of Love. Using a powerful combination of high-end drama, archival footage and intimate interviews with key characters, including a member of The Family who was present the night of the infamous Tate/LaBianca murders. We get under the skin of the Manson murderers as never before seen. All dramatic scenes are based on first-person testimony, including interviews, personal memoirs and trial transcripts. Our story begins just over a month before the murders, to coincide with the arrival of a new recruit just as Manson starts to prepare his ‘Family’ for the coming apocalyptic event he calls ‘Helter Skelter’. Internal tensions and increasingly bizarre tests of loyalty eventually boil over and lead to murder. Our story ends after the La Bianca murders with the dramatic escape of the new recruit who would eventually become the prosecution’s key witness – Linda Kasabian.