

Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World War II.

Freddie Quell

Lancaster Dodd

Peggy Dodd

Clark

Helen Sullivan

Val Dodd

Elizabeth Dodd

Doris Solstad

Bill White

Mildred Drummond

Mrs. Solstad

Margaret O'Brien