Part One:
In terry Kay's novel the characters are living in a hurried urban setting, the kidnapped is involved in a complex plot against the human social environments of greed and apathy. The outcome of the novel depends on the caring of a city for a nameless boy, and ultimately on how much a single human life, the life of a random "Joe Schmoe", is worth.
Part Two:
The novel enters on the life of Aaron Greene heading to work. He works for the Century National Bank in Atlanta. He is emersed in the morning crowd, a group of people grumpy and unfeeling in the early bus ride into the city. He sits with a man who is oblivious to Aaron, has no care for his discomfort and has spread his umbrella perilously close to Aaron's quarters. He is too busy to be bothered. He recalls a morning earlier when an umbrella had been opened carelessly
and had poked an onlooker in the eye. The nameless business man stared at the screaming woman with contempt and walked hurriedly away. This is the scene with which Aaron is another nameless
part. Aaron must walk to his job from the station, and it is raining. He forgot his umbrella.
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