sentences:  At eight years old, James Dean lives with his estranged father Winton and mother Mildred in 1939 Santa Monica, California.When Mildred dies of cancer in 1940, Winton sends James on a train to Fairmount, Indiana, along with the coffin containing her body.Winton does not show up at the funeral, leaving James to be raised by his aunt and uncle on a farm in Fairmount.