Henry and Cato

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Henry and Cato is the story of two prodigal sons. Henry returns from self-imposed exile in America to an unforeseen inheritance of wealth and land in England. He is also returning to his mother. His friend Cato is struggling with two ambiguous intermingled passions, one for a God who may or may not exist, the other for a petty criminal who may or may not be capable of salvation. Cato's father and his sister Colette wait anxiously to welcome Cato back to sanity after his dubious escapades. Henry meanwhile confronts his mother, the unappeased furies of childish resentment, and various possibilities of revenge. He also wants to save his soul, and to save Stephanie, a tragic adventuress and an unexpected part of his inheritance. Henry's cool mother watches, Cato's impetuous sister intervenes. Can love here become a saving force, or is it condemned to be possessive and demonic? Beautiful Joe thinks that a determined man with a gun or a knife can get the money he wants and the girls as well; but perhaps he too is anxious to save his soul. A passionate pure devotion, like that of a 'young knight', inadvertently provokes the crisis. Blackmail, violence, and homicide take a hand, and both Henry and Cato return home at last.