Part of Georg Diez and Christopher Roth's multi-volume project 80*81, which revisits the years 1980 and 1981 as a hinge moment of the present through interviews and essays. Volume 2, California Über Alles, gathers conversations with the first Iranian president Abolhassan Banisadr, the filmmaker Paul Schrader and the music producer Giorgio Moroder, tracing the political, cinematic and musical currents of the moment.