Haunted by the death of his son in infancy and the love of his life many years later, Jake Montgomery grudgingly agrees to a form of “journal therapy” that allows him to expose and confront the sharp, insistent pain that he regularly buries with rage and scotch and television. What begins as a journey chronicling youthful discovery spirals swiftly into spaces where loss overwhelms. It is a special horse that gives Jake a sense of purpose in his desperate search for a reason to carry on.