Hank and Ila Pietenpol are home on furlough from El Salvador to visit Hank's parents in Easton, Wisconsin. A vague unease grips them as they drive northward from Chicago. It's the old trouble between Hank and his father, Wim--he's always on Hank, riding him, preaching at him. Ila resents it. Why should this old man treat her husband, a grown man of thirty, as if he were still a child? --From publisher's description.