All That Will Remain

Its 1914 and the Lyle family like the United States itself is at a crossroads. Malcolm Lyle all too aware that he is no engineering genius like his father who founded the company has made the Keystone Steam Works internationally known through his abilities in marketing and adapting his fathers ideas. Now he must decide whether to devote the companys resources to a lucrative government war project or to back his son Augustus who is an even worse engineer than Malcolm in the development of the ill-fated steam-powered Lylemobile. Meanwhile he learns that his youngest son John Lincoln has gone off unannounced to join a multinational effort to fight the Kaisers invasion of Europe at the same time that the boys unmarried twin sister Mary Lydia turns out to be pregnant. Malcolms wife Missy is no help with his dilemmas content to spend her days dressed in peignoirs and lying around on the living room sofa reading womens magazines and eating bonbons. His eighty-nine-year-old Mother Libby the steely matriarch of the Lyle clan watches Malcolms every move with what he believes is an unapproving eye. Then there is Libbys Caribbean maid Perpetual an impenetrable figure with a room full of medicinal plants and an indelible irrepressible spirit who has inadvertently become the axis around whom the Lyle household revolves.Its 1914 and the Lyle family like the United States itself is at a crossroads. Malcolm Lyle no engineering genius like his father Colin who founded the Keystone Steam Works must decide whether to devote the companys resources to a lucrative war project or to back his son Augustus in the development of the steam-powered Lylemobile. Meanwhile he learns that his youngest son John Lincoln has gone off unannounced to join a multinational effort to fight the Kaisers invasion of Europe and that the boys unmarried twin sister Mary Lydia is pregnant. His wife Missy is no help content to lie around in her peignoirs reading womens magazines and eating bonbons. His steely eighty-nine-year-old Mother Libby watches Malcolm with what he believes is an unapproving eye. Then there is Libbys Caribbean maid Perpetual an impenetrable figure with a room full of medicinal plants and an indelible irrepressible spirit who has become the axis around whom the Lyle household revolves.