This is the story of a boy coming of age during tumultuous times and how the gift of a camera helped to bring the world-and his own place within it-into focus. Like many stories, it contains competing narratives that exist simultaneously: tragedy and despair, discovery and illumination.

It's a coming-of-age story that is both specific to a time and place and universal in its theme of how we view the world through young eyes as we leave childhood behind and emerge into our adult selves.