FBI agents pay a surprise visit to a Communist man and his wife in their New Yor
k apartment, and after a trial that divides the country, the couple are sent to
the electric chair for treason. Decades later, in 1967, their son Daniel struggl
es to understand the tragedy of their lives. But while he is tormented by his pa
st and trying to appreciate his own wife and son, Daniel is also haunted, like m
illions of others, by the need to come to terms with a country destroying itself
in the Vietnam War.
