This book is about an urban chicano, who grows up beneath the shadow of the sprawling steel mill complex of northwestern Indiana. Jesse is a Mexican-American who like many Mexican-Americans discovers he is neither Mexican nor American. This book is about that challenge. Jesse leaves home to do something no one he knows has ever done. He goes to college. He studies in Europe. To help cope with his isolation his imagination discovers worlds unknown. He returns home a very different person. A person who has played with other realities. He returns home to "test" the new Jesse in the old environment. The tests proves difficult. The results are complex. The year is 1970.