Mendocino
The small town lay in the rugged North Coast territory of California. Into a wilderness of beauty and refuge, Russian Nicolai Beriankov came with his Indian wife and children from Fort Ross. There, in 1844, he built a great redwood house where he began to carve out his dream and his destiny. It is the story of one family's survival across eight generations, through war, poverty, bitter hatred and scathing scandal.