What starts off as a struggle to exert individual and national identities explodes into a struggle for survival between two very different coalitions. People on both sides must work to resolve issues with fate, faith, duty and family amidst a war that could define the present and future of an entire world.
In the vain of Jack Kerouac or John Steinbeck, this is a story about a journey across America in the physical sense but more important is the psychological journey that allows the author to discover things about himself. Along the way he meets new and old family and friends but the essential journey here isn't the one that takes him to all 48 continental states but the journey to find something with meaning and purpose in his life.