When Bob Capek's mother is killed in a hit-and-run accident in 1956, his father moves the family from Virginia back to his hometown of Mauch Chunk a small town in the middle of the eastern Pennsylvania anthracite coal region. From the moment Bob boards the train, the life he knew before comes to an end - and another, more harrowing one begins.
In 1956, ten-year-old Bob Capek, his father, and sister move to a small town in Pennsylvania's coal country, where a greedy mine owner known as The Cyclops will stop at nothing to own every mine in the county and a notorious gang threatens Bob's life.
