A Massachusetts district attorney running for governor decides to use a radical new DNA technology to solve a long-ago murder, but his efforts only result in another outbreak of violence.
Amanda, an eleven-year-old girl, contracts a disease. As her family and their friends and neighbors struggle to come to terms with the disease, ordinary people are transformed into heroes and heroines.
The Farrells, an ordinary family living in an upper-class New England town, struggle to cope when eleven-year-old Amanda, a promising gymnast, is diagnosed with AIDS, the result of a blood transfusion five years earlier.
