Born into an Irish-Catholic family, Tim has enough to eat, clothes on his back and a place to sleep, but things are far from easy. As war looms, Tim turns to military service to escape the strife at home. This won’t be the last time he escapes from one hardship into another.

Tim Carter describes the chaos and aftermath of serving in the Vietnam War. Lost in post-war life, he finds solace in a growing movement that will change his life forever.

In 1970s San Francisco, Tim Carter finds purpose helping the city’s poorest and most vulnerable. Meanwhile the People’s Temple is thrust into the media spotlight.

Tim Carter, his siblings and their new families become part of the inner sanctum of Jim Jones' movement, but a newspaper investigation threatens to unravel everything Jones has created.

Tim and the rest of the movement join Jim in the remote jungle of Guyana. They begin to notice increasingly sinister changes in their leader, culminating in a disastrous visit from a Congressman sent to investigate troubling rumours.

The devastating final meeting of Jonestown is revealed in the infamous “Death Tape”. Tim Carter recalls intimate memories of the event, culminating in his escape, and how that day has irrevocably changed his life.