Young Jaxons mother, a high-end call girl, is murdered in Kansas City. The case has gone cold for several years until Janet, a woman across the state in Saint Louis, receives the shoes that the call girl died in. Jaxon later receives a pair of World War II German military boots on his 11th birthday. He and Janet experience years of flashbacks and memories from the people that originally wore the shoes and boots. They experience the lives of the deceased owners of the shoes. Who killed Jaxons mom? Why was she murdered? Who benefited from her death? How is everyone and everything connected through four generations? How does the soldiers life