At the age of sixteen, Junior Denoalen embarked on a new life. He dropped out of school and left his home and crazy mother in San Francisco, legally changing his name to his long-time nickname of "Jack".

With his camera and a thousand dollars in his pocket, Jack set off to make his way in the world. After three years and hundreds of photos later, he finally landed a job with a newspaper as a travel reporter.

Eight years later, after traveling around the world, photographing people and places most of the world had never seen, Jack returned to the States to hunt down the author of a mysterious letter that had revealed a truth so devastating that he could no longer function in his old life...