A perfect storm materializes when Patrick Bouchard, an underwater welder at the San Pedro, California shipyard, loses his child to cancer. Driven by grief and rage, he sets out to make those that he feels are responsible pay, specifically Standard Pharmaceutical, the megacorporation owning the HMO that denied treatment to his stage 4 terminal son. That wasn't right, and someone had to be held accountable. They would pay alright, but not in blood. That would be too easy and serve no purpose. He's lost his son, his heart, and his faith; he could not get much lower. But from such depths, treasures are found, and in that abyss of human suffering, Patrick devises a scheme to keep his promise to his son, Gabriel, to fight until the end. He would make sure that no child would be written off to satisfy a corporate bottom line. The Jack of Broken Hearts was about to introduce himself to Sanford Peck and his Standard Pharmaceutical empire.