When Tedd Wallace is swept out to sea, he faces certain death—until two strangers, Balé Shabaka Kaza-Amlak and Sven Hill Matsen, do everything they can to save him. In the words of Balé this “one-moment connection” marks each of their lives forever.

Former bank robber, Bob Schibline, recalls the moment his Alcatraz prison cell slammed shut. It was a sound that he says marked the beginning of a five-year moment… a moment full of the kinds of Alcatraz secrets that only a former inmate could tell you about… and Bob is eager to share them all.