Five young misfits, ages 14 to 23, stuck in a small town with nothing positive in sight take to the tracks and head to a new home. Striped is the one responsible for the trip, and is the guide and mediator of every situation…mostly unruly incidents.
The personalities of Seth, Shane, and Vince have all different quirks which have to be monitored. Troy being the youngest at 14 needs extra protection and motivation. Then there's the outside world…
They trek on, staring from the societal exo-skeleton, and go inside to champion the giants in a cold world. Friends and comradries are made, as generosity and sympathetic peoples offer relief, work, and shelter.
Conflicts are also met in many high crime areas. Also by small town law enforcement, and other shady types on the outskirts of society. After a death due to a mishap during a fight Vince encountered on his way back from seeing a friend off, the course changes into a journey they were not prepared for.
Later on, they are stuck fending for themselves in environments they are foreign to. They adapt, they survive, but the entrance home comes with a cost…and the doorkeepers are many.
Is happily ever after too good to obtain?
I sat so merry in my abode
Loving hands around me
I dreamt of such glorious days
One day i would see
I remember the day I left
My room
I closed the door behind me
One quick look again
Then walked away
The room which would always remind me
The glorious days I had dreamt
I did merrily spent
How little did I then know
Life turns on a dime
My room is now not as it was
When I closed the door
Behind me
My room now is a prison
But not how one would invision
It is one of sorrow and grief
Sadness burns into the bare walls
I catch my breath
And weep
Why did thou'st doth betray?
The room which once embraced me
I ask with riddled heart
Jagged and torn
Which wicked riddles have I thus sought?
I sit still
I am now my room
No dreams as once before
I age before my open door
In my room long ago
I sat merrily in my loving abode
Loving hands did hold me
All gone
My room and myself
Now one
Two thrust to be together
Forever
Alone