The Hapless Life of Samuel Joseph

In 1957, a young Irish-American boy stumbles on the site of a commercial shoot in rural Ireland, watching, transfixed, as five hang-gliders dressed in white drift down off an Irish mountain. He thinks they are angels, and runs to meet them, the cameras turn to catch him....and his life is forever changed. Set in the turbulent 60s, The Hapless Life of Samuel Joseph is the story of a young man who is gifted with the ability to make others laugh, but whose heart wants only one thing: to fly. In 1966, back in the United States where he was born, Samuel has become a successful stand-up comedian, and receives an offer to be cast in a television series that satirizes the hippie movement. The decision he makes that day brings into his life Whip Charles, a young man who has for all his life been singing with his parent's gospel group, but who has left that group to find his own way. Sam and Whip, together with their cast-mate, Chace Whitley, a real hippie, take on the production of a comedy that dominates and forever changes all their lives, as they struggle with the demands of filming, of friendship, of betrayal, and of their individual fights with their own demons