Jack Boussereau was a typical teen, until God intervened and imbued Jack with an elevated Spirit of Service. His self-directed life was violently interrupted by an event totally incompatible with Jack's mental capacity to assimilate it. Consequently he fled life as he knew it, and entered a lifetime of escapism. Once old age finally caught up with him and he began to relax somewhat, God visited him once again with a new, vibrant vision of service. Thus, the building of Daddy Jack's Place in the nondescript settlement of Nestuke, Louisiana. Here, Jack's healing takes place, and he finds his...

RAT is the coming of age story of an orphan boy born to an unknown woman of the streets - cast into an orphanage - taken in as a servant in a dockside Pub - taken aboard a trading ship - ending up in California at the height of the gold rush. Becoming wealthy, he travels and ends up in the South during the Civil War. From this point his destiny is met in his Savannah home.