Award-Winning Author & Screenwriter
Can a lovelorn jingle writer with a fainting problem help turn the tide of the war?
1943—Brooklyn, New York
Wally Lipkin is a Brooklyn piano player, gifted in his musical ability but cursed with a secret anxiety problem that causes him to lose consciousness at inopportune times. With his eighteenth birthday fast approaching, Uncle Sam will be calling him to fight overseas—a death sentence for a guy like Wally. If he reveals his condition to avoid the draft, he'll find himself locked up in a sanatorium like his crazy uncle.
Desperate for a solution, Wally—along with his brother Max, and their friend Frankie—enters a radio station jingle contest that promises the winner local fame, fifty clams, and a stateside government job. A win would allow Wally to serve his country without facing the certain death he'd find on a foreign battlefield.
But when an alluring singer who looks like a motion picture starlet enters the scene, Wally's plans change dramatically. Now, his choices and his jingles may not only put his life at risk, they may turn the tide of the war.