Meet Juno: sixteen, sharp witted, intelligent…. Pregnant. While the adults around her lose their heads, Juno remains calm and pragmatic, arranging an adoption and forming a friendship with her baby’s adoptive father, who is going through something of a mid life crisis.
When a missing page from the diary of assassin John Wilkes Booth suddenly resurfaces, it implicates the great-great grandfather of treasure hunter Ben Gates as a conspirator in Abraham Lincoln’s death
Childhood friends Amir and Hassan are skilled at the Afghani sport of kite running. One day Amir witnesses Hassan being savagely attacked by a local gang, but does not come to his rescue. Years later, Amir, now living in California, is still unable to forgive himself for his cowardliness. Then an out of the blue phone call offers him the chance to return to Afghanistan and redeem himself.
Wendy and John Savage are middle aged brother and sister who suddenly find themselves having to have to care for their obnoxious, foul-mouthed elderly father. As the quarrelling siblings slowly come to terms with the realities of dealing with an ailing parent they hardly know, and never really liked, they slowly gain an understanding of themselves and a new found respect for each other.
Spanning three decades this highly impressive period epic about family, greed, corruption and the American dream, charts the rise and fall of a turn of the century prospector who becomes a rich and powerful oilman.
