In an intensely personal account, Barry Heard explains how as a conscript he was was of the many young men sent off to Vietnam for a year, completely unprepared for the emotional and psychological impact of what they would do and what they would have done to them there. As a result, he spent the next thirty years having a 'slow-motion' breakdown. The story of his long journey 'home' from Vietnam is an inspiring story of a life reclaimed, and gives voice to a lost generation of Australian men.
