It is 1965 and Luke, a sixteen-year-old youth, is destitute and living on the streets. His future is as bleak as his traumatic past; until the day he inherits a little, leather case from an ailing vagrant, who dies next to him, in the night. The contents of the old man’s case inspires Luke and he sets out to find the truth about his own past, and that of Harry Somerville, a Second World War soldier with a love of romantic poetry, who suffers an undignified and lonely death. A war hero rejected by society. When Luke marries, the incredible truth continues to unfold; exposing lies, cover-ups, hatred, revenge, retribution and the reason why Harry Somerville died as an outcast. The denouement brings all three life-stories together, with incredible consequences!
