We travel back in time to Philip's childhood, learning the history of his forbears, including their flight from sectarian conflict in the South in the Springtime of 1921, and the chilling murder later, of their neighbours in the notorious Pearson brother's incident. This extraordinary true story all began on the 7th December 1971, with an explosion, at the garage business of Philip Coogan during the midst of the Northern troubles. It sets in motion a trail of events that leaves Philip and his family struggling to survive in an increasingly hostile environment, the distress and frustration experienced by Philip and family had a pro founding effect on their health. In his young life while at Mullinahoe school Ardboe, he had a yearlong battle with TB, had a near-death experience and a dramatic vision of hell and heaven. On his sick bed, he receives the last rights of extreme unction.