Nightclub bouncer Jackson Reilly's life is a decadent blur of drinking, carousing with his biker buddies, and riding his aging Norton 850 Commando motorcycle, but his world was once profoundly different. A mysterious incident when he was thirteen shattered that world, and he's been at war with society ever since.His mother's sudden death forces him to re-connect with his past, and with his aging Auntie Jo, who once played piano in the rough and tumble of the fifties' jazz scene. Reluctantly at first, then with the fervor of a man obsessed, Jackson chases after the life he left behind so many years ago, jeopardizing his job and turning his back on his friends. The upheaval threatens to destroy him, as he's forced to confront the incident that drove him to abandon all that he once loved. Auntie Jo finally makes him see that what he's really been battling for all those years is his own destiny.After a lifetime in darkness Jackson learns the meaning of 'follow your bliss', but has the lesson come too late?