Roger Wardlow is being toyed with by fate. He is being taken on a roller coaster ride with incredible twists and turns. His career is on a downhill dive when a couple of tragic coincidences turn his life totally inside out. He goes from a retirement age bitter man to a fugitive on the run. He finds he has a capability to create a new identity by stealing one from an innocent victim. His mother's sayings follow him. They come to him at odd moments and seem to him to have insight to his situations. Fate leads him through horrible actions, idyllic moments, and times of panic and fear. His fate is connected to the fate of others around him. Sometimes shaping his actions and sometimes being shaped by his actions. Follow Roger through his moments, good and bad. What would you do, what could you do, placed in the same circumstances?