Fierce People

1978 - Lower East Side, New York. Fifteen-year-old Finn Earl dreams of following his father into the jungles of South America. Instead he's stuck with his mother, a 32-year-old masseuse with a taste for cocaine. When her habit forces them to flee New York, they find protection under the wing one of her clients, ageing billionaire Mr Osborne. In Vlyvalle, a golden playground for the super-rich, Finn discovers a people who are stranger, more savage and more secretive than any tribe in National Geographic. Offered a new life and new friends amongst the decadent and beautiful denizens of Osborne's empire, Finn falls in love and grows up fast. He's living a twisted approximation of the American dream-and for a moment everything he wants is there for the taking. But in America, social-climbing is a blood sport. And even on what should be the happiest night of Finn's life, on an island in the middle of a private lake, naked and high with Maya, Osborne's bewitching granddaughter, someone is watching him from the depths of the forest ...and laughing.