Vital Force

"Vital Force" is a poignant statement about what makes us live on, fight for ourselves and our dreams, and believe in goodness.
On Dropsy Avenue in a rundown area of New York, life goes on.
Yakov Shtarka is a family man and... carpenter who has lost all interest in life and his wife and children, trying to find some work and meaning in existence.
Elton Shaftsbury is a former owner of a brokerage firm whose fortune was destroyed by the Great Depression, trying to start over and set up his personal life.
Mafia members, immigrants, refugees, neighborhood kids, and homeless people… all trying to survive, regardless of the hardships and deprivations that life bestows upon them. But the main thing is to have that very vital force that drives each of us day after day to move forward and not give up.
The action of "Vital Force" takes place during the Great Depression and paints a vivid and grim picture of what different people - both poor and rich - had to do to survive during one of the most difficult periods in American history. In this powerful novel, the fates of people are intricately woven together with real historical events.