In the 1930's, H.L. Mencken said of the people who fled the dust bowl, "They are simply, by God's inscrutable will, inferior men, and inferior they will remain until by a stupendous miracle, He gives them equality among his angels."  This is the story of one such "inferior" man.  We first meet Jared as a child, walking away from the Kansas Dustbowl with his mother.