Thomas Jefferson, the ultimate revolutionary, came to symbolize the very revolutionaries who ransacked Theodore Dwight's family farm, terrorizing his siblings, burning crops and killing livestock when he was only 13 years old in 1777. "No father. No God. Theodore Dwight was rudderless as the Revolutionary storm hit." This is the story of Theodore Dwight's journey through passions and temptations, his struggle to find truth and as an older man to slay demons