When he hears that his fierce, beautiful twin sister Savannah, a well-known New York poet, has once again attempted suicide, he escapes his present emasculation by flying north to meet Savannah's comely psychiatrist, Susan Lowenstein. Tom Wingo is an unemployed South Carolinian football coach whose internist wife is having an affair with a pompous cardiac man.

Sofer’s characters are immensely sympathetic and illustrate plainly and without pretense the global issues of class, religion and politics following the Iranian Revolution.Ī flabby, fervid melodrama of a high-strung Southern family from Conroy ( The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline), whose penchant for overwriting once again obscures a genuine talent. But the family’s troubles are hardly over, and as they try to make their way out of the country to reunite their family overseas, young Shirin’s well-intentioned plan threatens to curtail all their efforts. Eventually, Isaac triumphs over his accusers by bribing his way out of prison with a gift of his life savings. He takes a room and job with a welcoming Hassidic man in Brooklyn, and, against his better judgment, falls in love with the daughter, Rachel.

And, an ocean away, son Parviz feels the strains in different ways, when both information and money from his family suddenly stops. Isaac and Farnaz’s precocious young daughter, Shirin, decides to take matters into her own hands, risking the family’s lives when she steals confidential files from a classmate’s home in the hopes of saving her uncle from the same fate as her father.

Isaac’s beloved wife Farnaz tirelessly seeks information about her husband, and in doing so, begins to question the loyalty of the family’s trusted maid, Habibeh, whose son (a former employee of Isaac’s) has become an ardent member of the Republic. On the homefront, the situation is similarly bleak. As his interrogators try to break him with physical abuse and neglect, Isaac is most tortured by the memories of his family, with whom he is allowed no contact. Technically accused of being an Israeli spy, Isaac’s real crimes are his religion and his personal wealth. In the wake of the Iranian Revolution, as the Ayatollah Khomeini’s Republic is first being established, gem dealer Isaac Amin is arrested near his opulent Tehran home. An Iranian Jew waits wrongly accused in prison while his family slowly crumbles in Tehran and New York.

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