They left their nation behind, yet ended up capturing its spirit. In self-imposed exile, they found the inspiration to write some of the most acclaimed and influential literature of all time.

THE LOST GENERATION follows the journeys of F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Archibald MacLeish, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway on their quest to create the literature of the America they left behind. Against the exhilarating backdrop of 1920's Europe, and especially Paris, they drank, argued, loved, lost and struggled to find their voices and ways. Through interviews with people like Jack Hemingway, George Plimpton and Edmund White, this feature-length BIOGRAPHY® transports viewers to the Left Bank of the Seine, the bullrings of Pamplona and the beaches of the Cote d'Azur, the scenes of an artistic outpouring that has become legend.

It was a time of F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby, of Gertrude Stein and her salon on Rue des Fleurs, of Ezra Pound and James Joyce, of Sylvia Beach and her bookshop Shakespeare & Company. The decade exploded with life and experimentation--a time where genius thrived, classics were created, careers made, and lives were ruined.