FROM THE RIVER'S EDGE TO THE WORLD BEYOND is a story of contemporary America. Set in New York's Hudson Valley, the small fictional Dutchtown community is evacuated during a faulty nuclear power plant warning alert. Typical of these riverfront communities, stuggling to maintain themselves after the demise of Hudson River industries, the new hi-tech nuclear industry may or may not be the best alternative. But what does come out of the evacuation fiasco is a decision to support a new PALACE OF DIVERSIONS at the river's edge. New things happen from then on.