Boss tells the story of three high school seniors in the late 1990s. Nora is the adopted daughter of northern transplants to Eastern North Carolina. Augustus is a star baseball and football player whose wealthy father, Hart, is the town mayor. Roman has just arrived at Liberty High for the last three months of his senior year. His parentsÕ recent divorce has caused an abrupt relocation to a town his father, Baron, apparently has ties to. For these teenagers it is the end of senior year and the beginning of the summerÑ before they move in very new directions and maybe to very different lives.