In the novel, THE AFTERMATH: THE ROAD BACK--the sequel to, A LOSS OF INNOCENCE-- Frank Norton comes home from Vietnam an amputee. In time, he learns to cope with his handicap. Nora, his wife, also resigns herself to the new reality. But beneath the calm, smolder the embers of resentment waiting to catch fire. Years later---as fate would have it---their lives unravel when Nora becomes a paraplegic as a result of a car accident; in effect, unleashing a flood of repression and self-recrimination that wreaks havoc in their lives.