The Iraq war drew twenty-three-year-old Justin Caden into a psychological abyss. Back home, in the United States, he confronts life he left behind, but combat episodes emerge in recollections and nightmares. He establishes an amorous relationship with Kim Atoke, an Afro-Indigenous woman. His relationship with his grandma and reading his deceased grandfather's memoire inspires Justin on a journey of self-discovery. His destination is Chebec, Nova Scotia, the birthplace of his grandparents. On the road, he meets and hears the voices of grassroot Americans, poets, and a storyteller. He encounters a tornado disaster where he saves a boy from the rubble, and further on his journey, he rescues a runaway teenage girl. In Portland, Maine, he boards the ferry that takes him across the Bay of Fundy to Chebec, where he befriends a young Acadian woman, Stacy Cottreau. In Chebec, Legendary Redemption Island looms offshore, and as it did his grandfather decades past, lures Justin. Knowing the mythical island has freed men of torments, he also knows it has driven others deeper into despair. He enters the island rock's caves where, in his mind's landscape, he witnesses decadence, corruption, greed, hypocrisy, false prophets, and hope.