Follows the life of thirteen-year-old Nathaniel Dunn, from May 1774 to December 1775, as he serves his indentureship with a music teacher in Williamsburg, Virginia, and witnesses the growing rift between patriots and loyalists, culminating in the American Revolution.
Nineteen-year-old pilot Henry Forester, having returned home to Virginia after fighting in World War II, is consumed by worry over the well-being of the people who helped him escape Nazi-occupied Germany and returns to France, where he is shocked to see the ravages of war and tries to regain internal peace.
Instead of spending her teen years at parties and balls, Annie, an idealistic, poetry-loving patriot, finds herself nursing soldiers, hiding valuables, and running the household as the Civil War rages around her family's Virginia home.
Best friends, Hunter and Stripe, do everything together until they find themselves on different soccer teams; but they learn a valuable lesson about friendship when the two teams compete against one another for the championship.
In 1775, Nathaniel Dunn, a thirteen-year-old indentured servant in Virginia, befriends an elderly schoolmaster and soon finds himself torn between the two sides in the American Revolution.