Tim Warner returned home from the war with more than the tragic experience of politics and war during his two-year tour of duty. During his time overseas, he found his true love, Venda, and lost her, which made him question himself, his past, and his footsteps. After reading a poem at the airport in Germany on his way home.
On his return to his small hometown, he found that things had changed since being overseas. Not only did people act oddly towards him, but His ex-girlfriend had a baby with a long-time school bully, Ed Murphy, an antagonist between Ashley and Tim. But what about the Baby? He flees his small hometown to Boston after close calls and strange behavior that kept happening. In Boston, he meets a fellow ex-Marine Stanley from his unit in the Middle East, who helps him find a job and a place to stay and helps him find Venda again.