| Seymour Levov| going by the nickname of 'Swede' in the Jewish community he was born into| was even more of an all-American than Douglas Fairbanks himself. He had
just everything an American idol can dream of: not only was the tall muscular young man his high school star athlete but he married a beauty queen named Dawn into
the bargain. And as if all this were not enough| Swede later became the successful manager of the glove factory his father had founded| which allowed him to live
with his wife in a beautiful house in the New Jersey countryside. Well-mannered| always bright| smiling and positive| conservative but with a liberal edge| what bad
could ever happen to him ? And yet... And yet this was reckoning without fate and its obnoxious irony| Swede and Dawn's nemesis manifesting itself in the person of
Merry| their beloved daughter who in her teens unexpectedly turned into a violent activist...|
Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family.