Molly Drayton, the idealistic daughter of Republican parents, is twelve years old when she tells JFK that she loves him at a New York campaign stop. Across the country, thirteen year-old Jack Masterson and his widowed mother are leaving Ohio for a new life in California.In a few years, Molly's father will be Under Secretary of Defense. Jack will be a Marine in Vietnam.In April 1970, their lives intersect by chance on an Arizona highway. A cross-country trip, a volatile love affairtwo lives shaped by tumultuous times. A story of war and its aftermath when the warriors come home.