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En 1980, un adinerado hombre de negocios llamado Carl Fletcher es secuestrado, tratado con brutalidad y retenido para pedir un rescate. Menos de una semana después, lo liberan y regresa con su mujer e hijos, y la familia sigue adelante con sus vidas, retomando sus preciados puestos en la saga del sueño americano, reconfortados al darse cuenta de que, aunque su dinero puede haber sido lo que los puso en peligro, es también lo que les ha garantizado su seguridad. Pero ahora, casi cuarenta años después, parece que, después de todo, quizás nadie ha conseguido superar aquel suceso. Carl ha pasado los siguientes años buscando secretamente una explicación al asunto de su secuestro, mientras que su esposa, Ruth, ha invertido sus esfuerzos en proteger la salud emocional de su marido. A sus tres hijos no les va demasiado mejor: el miedo crónico de Nathan no le permite avanzar en su bufete de abogados; Beamer, guionista de Hollywood, consume cualquier cosa (sustancias, comida, mujeres) para anestesiar sus continuos terrores; y Jenny se ha pasado la vida tan empeñada en demostrar que no es un producto de la patología de su familia que ha llegado a definirla. Mientras todos ellos sobrevuelan el delicado precipicio de sus diferentes tipos de supervivencia, descubren que la fortuna familiar se ha reducido prácticamente a nada y deben enfrentarse a preguntas desesperadas sobre hasta qué punto su riqueza económica ha influido en los éxitos y fracasos de sus vidas.
In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, only slightly the worse, and the family moves on with their lives, resuming their prized places in the saga of the American dream, comforted in the realization that though their money may have been what endangered them, it is also what assured them their safety. But now, nearly forty years later, it’s clear that perhaps nobody ever got over anything, after all. Carl has spent the ensuing years secretly seeking closure to the matter of his kidnapping, while his wife, Ruth, has spent her potential protecting her husband’s emotional health. Their three grown children aren’t doing much better: Nathan’s chronic fear won’t allow him to advance at his law firm; Beamer, a Hollywood screenwriter, will consume anything—substance, foodstuff, women—in order to numb his own perpetual terror; and Jenny has spent her life so bent on proving that she’s not a product of her family’s pathology that she has come to define it. As they hover at the delicate precipice of a different kind of survival, they learn that the family fortune has dwindled to just about nothing, and they must face desperate questions about how much their wealth has played a part in both their lives’ successes and failures.
In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, only slightly the worse, and the family moves on with their lives, resuming their prized places in the saga of the American dream, comforted in the realization that though their money may have been what endangered them, it is also what assured them their safety. But now, nearly forty years later, it’s clear that perhaps nobody ever got over anything, after all. Carl has spent the ensuing years secretly seeking closure to the matter of his kidnapping, while his wife, Ruth, has spent her potential protecting her husband’s emotional health. Their three grown children aren’t doing much better: Nathan’s chronic fear won’t allow him to advance at his law firm; Beamer, a Hollywood screenwriter, will consume anything—substance, foodstuff, women—in order to numb his own perpetual terror; and Jenny has spent her life so bent on proving that she’s not a product of her family’s pathology that she has come to define it. As they hover at the delicate precipice of a different kind of survival, they learn that the family fortune has dwindled to just about nothing, and they must face desperate questions about how much their wealth has played a part in both their lives’ successes and failures.