Plot Synopsis:
It is a bold claim – that a five-year-old boy could change America; change the course of history. But when a Cuban boy named Elián Gonzalez was plucked from the Florida Straits on Thanksgiving day 1999, he set in motion a bitter custody battle and chain of events that did just that. With unprecedented access to Elián, his family and key players in the saga, THE BOY WHO CHANGED AMERICA uses one boy’s remarkable journey to plot the path to rapprochement between Cuba and the U.S.