On the day that Omar Cabezas was taken into the mountains to begin his training as a guerrilla, he left his familiar world behind. What he found on the mountain and how he survived the adversities of hunger, exposure, a constant and leaden fatigue, fear, and - perhaps the toughest – solitude is the heart of his story. This book is not meant to be a full history of the Sandinista movement or pre-revolutionary conditions in Nicaragua. It is an account of one guerrilla that is short on rhetoric and rich in clues that reveal who the Sandinistas are and how they came to power.