Vital Force

"Vital Force" is a piercing statement about what makes us live on, fight for ourselves and our dreams, and believe in goodness.
On Dropsy Avenue in a shabby part of New York, life goes on as usual.
Yakov Shtarka - a family man and carpenter who has lost all interest in life and his wife and children, is trying to find at least some work and a sense of existence.
Elton Shaftesbury - a former owner of a brokerage firm whose fortune was destroyed by the Great Depression, is trying to start all over again and set up his personal life.
Mafia members, immigrants, refugees, neighborhood kids, and the homeless... all are trying to survive, despite the hardships and deprivations that life bestows upon them. But the main thing is to have that very vital force that makes each of us move forward day after day and not give up.
The action of "Vital Force" takes place during the Great Depression and paints a vivid and bleak 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 and real historical events are intricately intertwined.