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During the 1940s, a young boy grows up in an immigrant Eastern European Jewish family in Camden, New Jersey. Family members relate stories of his parents' and their own adaptions to the new country. His father's drug store becomes the center of his world through acculturation and confusing definitions of being a responsible young man in America.

A young doctor falls in love with the art of acting. Surprising success in Hollywood and rewards from a lucky marriage lead him to repay life with dedicated service in West Africa. The stories relate how the doctor became a doctor, how he stumbled into acting, won an enviable Hollywood career, gained a wonderful family, and suddenly decided to leave his good fortune to provide medical service in a poor country in West Africa.

Returning from Africa causes friction in the doctor's marriage. Divorce leads to wild behavior in Hollywood. The love of a new relationship corrects his conduct and leads to renewed good work in Hollywood, Montana, South Dakota, Germany, and Cornell University.