In New Orleans a man waits--for what he does not know. He only knows that the feelings he has for the young waitress who has taken pity on him are not quite love. In New Jersey, a small boy knows that his father is in deadly trouble and that it is, at last, time to go home. In America's heartland, the crops have failed and the cattle are dying. Everywhere around the world, people are hungry, and growing hungrier.