"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. There, at the beginning of the 1970's, Thomas Weber, a dropped-out Chicago journalist, and his wife, Angela, play out their troubled relationship among political dissidents seeking counterculture alternative to the "straight" society they've rejected.