Five generations of the proud and ambitious Californian Collingwood family appear before us in the pages of a novel spanning a century and a half, from 1848 to modern times. Wealth is the blessing and curse of this family. At the prestigious Princeton University, Fred Stewart studied history, and it became not just the background of his inimitable sagas - documentary events are inseparable from fictional events, and the “truth of life” complements the rich imagination of the writer, author of popular bestsellers “ Century" and "Ellis Island".