Voor Godsdienst, Deugd, En Vaderland (1791)

Young Everett Carson loses his mother in a flood, then his father to suicide. Bounced from one dysfunctional family to another, heas dumped at an orphanage. Inventing protective friends, he withdraws psychologically, becoming a teenage alcoholic. Struggling over a bottle with an inebriated woman, Everett grows up feeling responsible for her miscarriage. 1968awhile in the Navy, the lovably alcoholic Carson, needing hospitalization, is put ashore on a remote island during an uprising. Caught in the crossfire, a dying princess begs him to smuggle her baby out of harmas way to freedom in America. Stalked by murderous insurgents from the rebellion, Carson flees for their lives across America in various disguises to escapeaincluding a large nurseas uniform and makeshift turban. Carson races with child through hilarious misadventures, from a NYC bra-burning demonstration, to a thrilling showdown high above the Pacific. Laughter aboundsa] till the moment heas shot.