"The life of musical-comedy star Lotta Crabtree inspired this story of a Civil War-era entertainer who finds romance with a Confederate spy."--Container.

Shows the conflicts between three generations as the Thayers, a crotchety old professor and his wife, spend their summer together on a lake in New England. The couple agrees to mind their estranged daughter's boyfriend's child, while daughter and boyfriend go on a trip. The boy bonds with the old man in a way his daughter never did. Shows the terrors and graces of aging.

While at their summer home on Golden Pond, the Thayer family is forced to renew their bonds of love and overcome the generational friction that has existed for years.

Snubbed by his tribe and desolate over his godfather's death, a young Pueblo Indian attempts to run away with his pet coyote pup.