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In 1933, a chance encounter with the Chicago mobsters makes the proprietor of a small gas station the beneficiary of the mobster’s gold. But the government passed a law prohibiting citizens from using gold as legal tender. The gas station owner believes one of the gangsters will be coming back to claim the gold. Suspecting that he will never be able to spend the Chicago mob’s gold that he knows the g-men are looking for and fearing that the mob will come to kill him, he buries it. Paranoia and fear drive the man to disguise everything he owns by turning his quiet country gas station into a junkyard.
On his quest to solve his friend’s final riddle, Donnie Fuller buys the junkyard, which triggers the end of his marriage and the beginning of his curious, but warm romance with his new neighbor, Annie. The couple works diligently to solve the mystery of what happened that rainy night in 1933. Fortune is elusive. Donnie becomes fortune hunter by day and a maintenance man by night through a journey that spans fourteen years.
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In 1944, John Miller came of age and is looking forward to joining his brother in the army, believing this will give him an opportunity to see the world. A crippling accident ends that dream and sets his life in a new direction. He meets the woman of his dreams at Kassendahl (Kissing Place) but events send her on a different tragectory - she discovers she is the daughter of a wealthy businessman in Chicago. The foreman in John's lumber camp does everything to keep them apart while John endeavors to find her.