Influenced by a childhood in the innocence of the 1950s, to adolescence in the upheaval of the 1960s. Life reveals the coincidences of fate when Buck discovers the love of his life on a blind date. Happenstance dictates the love and hate, the joy and pain, and the path of his life. A year of covert missions in Long Tieng, Laos changes everything. But it's the heartbreak from the woman he loves that sets Buck on the path of untrusting secrecy.