American Heiress Episode 01

This is a coming of age road trip dramatic series with multiple episodes set in the US in the years 1978 to 1983. Stephanie Winthrop has just turned 18 and come of age. She is a wealthy, beautiful and intellectual, adventuresome redhead living in a mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, with her divorced mother, Joan. Stephanie is closer to her father, Marshall, a wealthy billionaire with various business interests. She hates her mother's domineering, cruel and perfectionist personality. Stephanie is just out of boarding school and has been accepted into Sarah Lawrence, an all female college in New York. At her 'acceptance' party, she sleeps with a neighborhood guy she grew up with and has always been in love with, Alex, but as soon as they finish having sex in his car, he tells her that this was his farewell to her and is going to marry Bianca 'Bibi', another neighborhood young woman that they both grew up with that Stephanie hates. Stephanie is heartbroken and emotionally hurt and betrayed. During a visit to her father's house, Stephanie learns that her father still loves her mother and is emotionally hurt and confesses to her that he has late stage cancer and has been given only a few weeks left to live. Back at her mother's house, Stephanie discovers her mother is having an affair with her father's doctor. Enraged, Stephanie vows revenge. Her mother has been living with her new husband, Stephanie's stepfather, a professional golfer named Alan. At the country club that Alan goes to, Stephanie seduces him in the men's bathroom and has sex with him. Afterward, she tells him that she saw her mother (his wife) cheating on him and what they just had was revenge sex. Stephanie has stolen some money from her stepfather and his cigarette case to show her mother that they had sex. After telling her mother, they have a fight and her mother banishes her from the house. When she goes back to live with her father and prepares for college, her father dies. He is quickly cremated and at the reading of the will, the executor of the will declares that Stephanie, being an only child, is the sole heiress and beneficiary of her father's entire estate and holdings. Now she is extremely wealthy. It is summer time and she will not start college until September. Stephanie decides to use some of her money to go on an epic motorcycle road trip across America, to find herself, and to find a new meaning to life.