Walking the streets of New York City and watching the homeless laying on the sidewalks and eating out of trash cans, has become an everyday thing for most New Yorkers. Not Gene, a New York reporter. For him, it has become more than just the downside of New York life style, it has become an obsession. There are questions he needs to answer: why and how people end-up on the streets? Isn't our country rich enough to take care of its own? Why are so many war veterans sleeping on the streets? For Gene, there was only one way to find the answer to these and many more questions, he had to become one of them. He decided to live as a homeless person and experience their pain and suffering, to better understand the why's and how's of America's homeless people. What he didn't know, is that he was about to enter the worst nightmare of his life. He was in for a rude awakening.