When a eight year old boy living on Griffith Creek Mountain of Whitwell Tennessee, in the year 1974 with memories full of sorrow learning how to hide and control the demeanor of always hurting feeling homesick from having to leave his mother and sister Lucy, especially his sister Lucy. Getting on that school-bus that he despises taken every morning simply because it is little over thirty minuets away from his home and is so far away from his mother and Lucy. Dealing with the lonesome heart felt pain that happened to him some years back. His heart full of fear and grief, his mind filled with the possibilities having to leave home come back and things have changed as they did back then. The family not having any money and seven to sometimes nine people live together in the same two bedroom house. His heart and spirit filled with grief not knowing how to let it go. feeling as if any day the same reaction he felt of that pain may be rearing its ugly head back around into his life once more. This eight year old knows and understands those years are gone and the pain they caused should no longer hurt him as they do. His little worried head tells him he should be prepared for any darkness that awaits him. Only wanting to be this little eight year old boy that he is and spending so much more time with his family but holding all his pain inside learning never to let it show so badly. Even as darkness seems to follow him through his outrageously kind felt heart. He lives each day trying to hold his head high and just know that he is being loved and cared for. Though he was very young, his pain cut deeper than most well beyond their years. Separated from his beloved sister, Lucy, he must overcome the pain of his past while facing the uncertainty of what lies ahead. What happens to a kind hearted boy who must hide what he feels in his hope for love and happiness.