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Beyond Peleliu synopsis

On the eve of the Second World War, Tom McQuade, a relentlessly driven medical student and Virginia Russell, an exotic mind-reading magician get married. The McQuades move to Boston and Tom enters a prestigious surgical residency as they celebrate the birth of their son, David. The war destroys this family's idyllic life together as Tom is drafted and shipped off to the South Pacific theater. During the Battle of Peleliu, Tom suffers a career-ending gunshot wound that destroys his ambitions and drives his wife and child away from him. Forty years later, when David is a powerful San Francisco trial lawyer and Tom is in the early stages of dementia, father and son reconnect. David then learns the liberating force and redemptive power of truth.