Why do sons show behaviors so often like their fathers? Inheritance or environment? Nature or nurture? Atlanta, inspired by Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh, explores the childhood friends and influences who grow up during the Great Depression and World War II, the remarkable 20th century, have their own sons, and engage in the challenges of life - - -love, friendship, innovations and creativity, and lies, hypocrisy, crime and deception, and even redemption.