The Herlihys are a working class family from Chicago whose three children take wildly divergent paths: Brian joins the Marines right out of High School and goes to Vietnam, Michael becomes involved in the civil rights movement and after campaigning for Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy becomes involved in radical politics, and Katie gets pregnant, moves to San Francisco and joins a hippie commune. Meanwhile, the Taylors are an African-American family living in the deep South. When Willie Taylor, a minister and civil rights organizer, is shot to death, his son Emmet moves to the city and eventually joins the Black Panthers, serving as a bodyguard for Fred Hampton.
as Michael Herlihy
as Katie Herlihy
as Brian Herlihy
as Kenny Klein
as Sarah Weinstock
as Emmet Taylor
as Bill Herlihy
as Mary Herlihy
as Neal Reynolds
as Fred Hampton
as Reverend Willie Taylor
as Father Daniel Berrigan
as Constance
as Buddy Wells
as Melissa
as Mama Earth
as Althea Taylor
as Sister Elisabeth
as Dancer
as Cop #3
as SDS Radical
as Civil Rights Leader #1
as Civil Rights Leader #2
as Chicago Delegate / Reed Student
as Sheriff
as Marine
as Father Monahan
