Greg grows up on a farm in Charles City, Iowa. The son of alcoholic parents, neglected and left to fend for himself, Greg is drinking and driving at the age of thirteen. Never getting an allowance, he finds an easy way to access cash...once he masters his father's signature.At the age of eighteen, he is ready to leave home and venture out on his own, but his father finds out what he has done and does the unthinkable...putting Greg's life on hold.Alienated from his family and feeling deep resentment, Greg spends the next few years in an alcoholic haze. Traveling from state to state and job to job, he struggles with the past he cannot forget.