On a good day, any sane person could never imagine what it would feel like to be on a doomed crashing jetliner, much less live to tell the tale.

A combination of fiction and nonfiction - impossible to tell which - this is the story of one man who lives to tell the story after the jetliner he is on coming from Asia starts breaking apart in a storm at the Arctic Circle above Canada.

Living through the experience is horrendous enough by itself, but when Travis James realizes that his life is thought to be forfeited in the wreckage and there is no help coming? He goes into survival mode as his damaged body wreaks havoc and keeps him trapped in the wilderness until he heals enough to start traveling south to safety.

A man of means, his aching to return to the family that believes he is dead is the driving force that pushes him to the limits and beyond his abilities as the unfriendly terrain takes its toll.

When the push south finally begins, the trail is littered with agony and death as the civilized world refuses to acknowledge that there were any survivors or that he is anything other than a homeless man.

A disfigured Travis is constantly trying to decide whether to try to join his family, knowing that he no longer looks quite the same, or to wander off into the sunset and save his family more grief.

Some names have been changed to protect the innocent....