"It also affected children-the red diaper babies as we're called-whose lives were often uprooted by McCarthyism and who sustained the impact of having one's parent (or both parents) suddenly and so publicly deemed un-American. I haven't yet met a fellow red diaper baby whose mother or father was able to parent 'normally.'" In the midst of a successful Hollywood career, Julietta Appleton's father is "crushed like a bug" by McCarthyism and the Red Scare during the early years of the Cold War. Coupled with her mother's sudden death, young Julietta exists in a world where she doesn't ever quite fit. Un-American. Unmothered. Untethered. While living in ex-pat communities of artists and writers across Europe - from Italy to Ibiza to the Canary Islands - and upon returning to the US, Julietta searches for a place to belong, a place where she can be heard, and a place to call home. A story of love, loss, and a woman's search for herself

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