(m42) Who'll stop the rain

nick nolte and michael moriarty. vietnam. michael moriarty disillusioned scores two keys of heroin and gives it to sailor nolte to bring to the states. sailor nolte brings it to the states and discovers los angeles very changed. he goes to moriarty's wife and she does not have the money she promised and the nolte has been followed by thugs. nolte outwits the thugs, and escapes with moriarty's wife. moriarty arrives and is tortured by the thugs, but they figure out where nolte is headed and find him holed up in a cabin on an old abandoned hippie retreat. they shoot it out. nolte is killed. moriarty pours the heroin out to the wind and moriarty and his wife escape with their lives and sanity. The post vietnam generation overtaken by drugs and greed.