Joshua Tyrone Sanderson is a passably old, homeless black alcoholic in Indianapolis. A loner by choice, minute by minute and day by day he survives on the near downtown streets as valorously as any Agamemnon or Odysseus brandishing raw valor in battle in classical Greece or Troy. His life is a barbed poem ever as epic as theirs. When the son of a local drug pusher is forced into his life for a day and a half, his own battle to remain alone may be lost. He has steps to take, but his desire is to take them alone. But who will win - his jug, his angels or his demons?