Plot Summary:When Cliff Hendricks went to the Amazon jungle, he never expected to find a woman like Janet. She was born in the jungle. On the surface it may seem as if she and Cliff have little in common, though before long they've married and started a family. Later, when he is rendered invalid by a rare African virus, she cares for her husband while doing her best to raise the couple's four children Luke, Matthew, Paul, and Rebecca. As the years go by, the mystery of the family only deepens; no one has seen Matthew since his twenty-first birthday, Cliff and Rebecca rarely leave the house, and Luke is the only sibling to strike out on his own. Upon returning home to celebrate Paul's twenty first birthday, Luke is disturbed to discover that his reclusive brother's only friends are some old marionettes he carved as a child, and that Janet is making due by selling tribal art on the internet. As Rebecca begins experimenting with her sexuality, her father's health takes a turn for the worse. When ...
