A tragedy tears the brother apart at a young age. Eric is left to live his life with his well-to-do father and nanny while Tommy is left to his own devices with a drunken, abusive father. While you know that Tommy will have a hard life due to these circumstances, you think Eric will have it made as the son of a doctor. Yet their attitudes about themselves are not what you'd expect. Tommy considers himself lucky and is such nicknamed. While everything special in life seems to come to Eric, he is numb to the attention. It's the fact that they are so profoundly different, yet go through life and never think of themselves as anything but each other's brother, that makes this story so captivating.

While tragedy tears them apart, tragedy will also bring them back together. Can they pick up where they left off and find their way in life and remain together? That's the amazing part of the story that will leave you mesmerized by these two young men. You'll find out if they are truly brothers under the skin, and then you can decide who really is the "Fortunate Son."