Literary Novel About Physical As Well As Emotional Handicaps. The main character, Gordon Powers, is a paraplegic, whose only dream is to scuba dive in the ocean. His disability creates both emotional and mental handicaps leaving him with the haunting questions, “Why doesn’t anyone love me?” and “Does my life have any real value?” Gordon’s psychological pain of abandonment is so intense, it drives him and his companions to unlock the chains that hold them prisoners of guilt and fear.

Gordon’s companions too have their own fears, unique and as different as they are themselves. These four create a tapestry of metaphor for all of us who are afraid to acknowledge who what we feel inside. It is about our fear of rejection and ridicule of acknowledging who and what we are; not to the world but to ourselves.

Controlled by the turbulence from their fears, four perplexed individuals embark on a journey to the sea with the hopes of salvaging their fragmented and complicated lives; at the risk of total defeat.