"Sometimes people say I got charged with murder because I was ‘in the wrong place at the wrong time.' No. I was in the right place at the right time. If that hadn't happened, I wouldn't be here now, alive and sober and on track." This is the memoir of a man who used his months in jail to excavate the past, digging down into his years of chaotic alcoholic turmoil, until he found his own integrity. That awakening eventually brought him to another long-buried reality: The devastating impacts of depraved residential schools and misguided federal policies on himself and other First Nations/Native American people. And then he found an answer, a way to survive.