The Sordid Boyhood of an American Billionare

Harold Clames is one of the richest men in America. His whole life, which he didn't get to enjoy as much as he wanted, has been nothing short of a paradox. Now at sixty-four, he is dying from a variety of illnesses that have dogged him since he was a child. But it is an age where money can buy anything, including the chance to live a healthier life many years into the future when technology advances.

However, the tape rewinds back to the story of the early years of his life which starts in the early forties. From the day he is born, Harold Clames' life is a struggle. He almost never makes it past his premature birth date and when he does, he is very sick and abandoned. Even though he grows up in an Orphanage where he is raised by nuns, Harold is pretty much on his own and as soon as he turns nine, his destiny is entirely the craft work of his own hands.

He is allured to making money from the very beginning and discovers it at the same time as he discovers that there is another world beyond the walls of the solemn orphanage he grows up in. That world is America and there is no place like it in the fifties for a boy to dream and be happy.

However, things will take a turn for the worst at every turn of his childhood all the way to his boyhood youth, and just now entering his twenties, Harlod Clames is still overcoming many stipulating odds on his way to the top. He has always believed he was born for greatness and his only trajectory is to become one of the wealthiest men in the world, and therefore, he will not let anyone or anything stand in his way.