Acclaimed producer David Sutherland returns to rural America to tell an epic tale of two boys coming of age in Kentucky's Appalachian hills, documenting their struggles to overcome hardship and poverty and find meaning in their lives. It begins in the autumn of 1999, when Chris and Cody begin attending the David School, an alternative high school for troubled teens in David, Kentucky. Cody finds a new sense of belonging, not only in his home life...

When the tabloids scream the news that Tory up-and-comer and arbiter of family values Duncan Matlock has been caught in an affair with an 'escort' girl, no one is more stunned than Flora, his devoted wife. She is forced to plot revenge. "Splendidly wicked."--New York Times "Smashing"--TV Guide "A true PBS 'Masterpiece'...a brilliant, incisive political potboiler."--Los Angeles Times

Christopher Boyce and Daulton Lee were boyhood friends. As we meet them in their early twenties, Boyce has just quit the seminary, much to his father's disappointment, and has taken a job a TRW. He is soon promoted to dealing with the company's top-secret defense files, where he finds out about the CIA's tampering with elections overseas. Lee is a runaway paroled heroin addict, kept on the run between the U.S. and Mexico by the law and his narcotics...