When Sam the eldest son of Jim and Violet Pryce decides to follow in the footsteps of Michael Gill, his dream takes him to America. The roaring twenties were upon them, a time of change. With the dying having been done in the great war it was now the turn of the young to seek a life far removed from the men who had fallen in the trenches, and the women who had shed the tears of their generation. Sam, who had never been further than the horizon he could see from the hills of his home was about to pursue his destiny.