Jeff O'Kelley
An iron-willed Georgia boy accepts the burden of a man on his young shoulders. Fifteen-year-old Terry O'Kelly is fatherless and his remaining parent, his mother, is dying. Anguished, the soon-to-be orphan makes a surprising grown-up decision: Terry promises to care for his six brothers and vows to keep the family together. Steadfast to his word, Terry takes on the struggles of parenthood, which yields some difficult and unpleasant surprises.
Tom Wingo (age 13)
Tras una infancia traumática que no ha conseguido olvidar, Tom Wingo (Nick Nolte), un desilusionado y algo rudo entrenador deportivo sureño, se ve obligado a revivir su pasado cuando viaja a Nueva York a petición de la doctora Susan Lowenstein (Barbra Streisand), la sofisticada psiquiatra de la alta sociedad de Manhattan que atiende a la hermana de Tom después de varios intentos de suicidio.
