Raymond Hebbard, the son of the night man grows up an only child in a Victorian country town. His mother's love cannot protect him from his violent, alcoholic father. Raymond Hebbard is damaged goods. The boy is seen as an alien, a friendless misfit in the small community. The trauma Raymond Hebbard carries inside means that a fire is always ready to ignite in his chest and given the right circumstances it could explode and then beware those around...