Michael Kelly literally drops everything - his affluent Vancouver urban life with his wife and five year old son - and takes off with only the clothes on his back when he receives an anonymous letter from "home" telling him that his younger brother, Kevin Kelly, has gone missing, and that he should come home to help find Kevin. Twenty years ago, he left what he considers his dead end blue collar town and its painful memories in an abusive life without a word to anyone - making receipt of the letter even more surprising since no one from that life was supposed to know where he was - shortly after the death of his mother, who drowned in the river in an accident out fishing with his father. In leaving, he burned bridges with everyone he knew, never expecting to return or see any of them again. That abuse resulted him using his fists both as a means of survival as well as making money.
