During a summer in the 1960s, in a Catskills resort full of Jewish Russian-American communists, a sixteen-year-old boy named Manny is hanging by a thread: he has to bus tables all day with his mother for next to nothing, his friend Irwin might have to go to Vietnam, and he is unsure where his life is exactly heading. As the weeks go by, and as family drama and personal conflicts mount, we watch as Manny learns just how complex and difficult the world can be.
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