This memoir recounts how veteran journalist John A. Torres was able to find his way back to God through heartbreaking assignments and reporting from disaster sites around the world. During poignant and amusing recollections from his childhood in the Bronx, Torres tries to pinpoint what caused him to fall so far from his faith and how he struggled with the hole in his life. The book takes the reader along a journey to faith as Torres reports from Indonesia only days after the tsunami, from the AIDS pandemic in Africa, the execution chamber of a child killer, and from the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

By a freak accident Jack gets the job of airport manager in Jabra in southern Sudan. He falls in love with Jenelle, a dedicated teacher at the Catholic elementary school, but their happy time together is cut short when an army from the north invades the area, ruthlessly killing men, women, and children. Jack is thrust into the role of saving what remains of the world that Jenelle revealed to him.