In London of the 1740s, life was "brutish, nasty and short" whether experienced by the lower classes or viewed from the heights of privilege. The streets of London teem with the likes of pickpockets, prostitutes, mountebanks, Merry Andrews, and depraved aristocrats. Our hero's journey takes us from the squalor of Newgate prison to the heartbreak of the Tyburn gallows and finally to a fateful encounter at the open air fair in Moorfields. His path crisscrosses that of the great Evangelist, George Whitfield, and our protagonist comes to know the love of a Father who will never forsake him.