- A story about Sam Johnson reconnecting with his late father. Sam is the fourth generation leader of SC Johnson. In 1935, Sam's father flew from Racine, Wisconsin, to Fortaleza, Brazil in a now nonexistent water plane. Starting in 1998, Sam had the plane rebuilt, and in 2000 recreated the journey. Along the way, Sam shares deeply personal stories about himself and his family.—edemaine
- Together with his sons, Curt and Fisk, Sam Johnson set off to trace a path back in time to reconnect with his father and Johnson great philanthropist, but an absent father in his son's emotional life. Sam's mother, an alcoholic, was equally unavailable. Sam's anxiety to find out more about his father, depths of his own life. Approaching retirement from his day-to-day responsibilities, Sam Johnson became consumed with his fathers journey six decades earlier. Howeve the founding fathers son hoped to find reconciliation and a bit of his own soul. In 1935, Sams father, a rich, 35-year-old man, interested in his own pursuits and pleasures The elder Johnsons amphibious plane soared over the water and 15,500 miles of breathtaking landscape in search of the carnauba palm, the fronds of which are coated w the Tree of Life in Brazil, the carnauba palm is the main ingredient in Johnson Wax, the familys first successful household product. Once the Brazilian trip was complete around the world, leaving his young son for up to a year. Carnauba: A Sons Memoir is a story of a family rich or poor, suffering setbacks, confronting crisis, like Sams al Johnson entered a treatment program and remains sober today. The documentary reveals the extraordinary candor of a man struggling through a relationship that had hur father. Sams father died in 1978, leaving his son a posthumous letter. In it, his dad declared that Sam be his own man," run the company as he felt was right for the peopl fatherly love. Sam says the words released him from the patterns of that hurtful relationship.
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