August 1953, Fillmore, California. Some wounds, some windows never close. A gritty, fast-paced ride through dust and decisions. Two men, Connor and Gentry, combat veterans, separated by layers of society. Connor, a common man, left behind in the post-war upward surge. Thomas Gentry, an FBI agent in San Francisco. Each man has a need to help Artie Stamper, a mutual friend, taking different paths while struggling with poles apart personal demons, being pushed toward transformations, punching through lives with the women they've chosen in a shifting American landscape.A rarely told story of men who came from other places, lured by California's promises, falling like raindrops, absorbed in the California dust. Combat veterans. Soldiers who never stopped being soldiers
