Faith and Fate collide in this moving story spanning three decades. Dana, born with significant disabilities, remains the eternal optimist. Res, blest with God-given physical skills, pursues a life as an opportunist. Robert, a struggling pastor of a small church is willing to sacrifice everything to free his soul from the sins of his past. Joe, a small town police officer, tries to recover from the loss of his wife and start a new life. All of these characters are caught in life's rapids and are crashing against the boulders of emotional and spiritual challenges.

Two men, separated by more than a century, face common challenges of hatred, prejudice, and government bureaucracy as they labor to break the chains of poverty. Tyquan Donae Morrison was born in the Dirty D projects of New Orleans to an unwed mother. TQ, as he was known in the hood, never knew his father and had only his brother and sister as role models. Early attempts at improving himself through education fail as the school system dumbs down the curriculum and matriculates students who never attend classes. Life in the projects emphasizes the racial divide separating the blacks from...