An American in Paris: Charles Wailes has savored the mythical, wild life of the "golden" decade of the 1920s in Paris and now, a few years later, he returns to take stock of his life and, most importantly, to fight for custody of his nine-year-old daughter.

Francis Scott Fitzgerald, the great American author of the classic novels "The Great Gatsby" and "Tender is the Night," here perhaps in his best short story, with strong autobiographical elements, narrates a tale of greed, guilt, forgiveness, and redemption; ultimately, about the endless adventure of life.