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A nightclub caterer skirting the edges of Manhattan's elite, Billy Castle lives on borrowed light, serving men who will never know his name while supporting an alcoholic mother at home. One night he witnesses an act of violence that shatters his employer's glittering Uptown facade and drags him into the undercurrents of power his family has brushed against for generations. At its center lies Archer Stone, a man both architect and revenant of the American dream, whose reach extends far beyond the transactional and whose influence feels less political than elemental. Through Billy's unraveling, the fractures of a larger nation surface.
What follows is a descent through inherited guilt and manufactured amnesia, where loyalty is tested against survival and prosperity is revealed as theater. Drawing from the architecture of Greek tragedy and sharpened in a contemporary key, Made in America examines the myths a nation tells itself-the promises of liberty, the bargains of justice-and how quickly they collapse when the country begins to eat its young.
What follows is a descent through inherited guilt and manufactured amnesia, where loyalty is tested against survival and prosperity is revealed as theater. Drawing from the architecture of Greek tragedy and sharpened in a contemporary key, Made in America examines the myths a nation tells itself-the promises of liberty, the bargains of justice-and how quickly they collapse when the country begins to eat its young.