Winner of the 2008 Southwest Writers Nonfiction Award and nominated for the 2008 Library of Virginia Nonfiction Award and the Devil's Kitchen Nonfiction Award During the Vietnam War, a group of American friends carved their own path by dropping out of college and traveling to Australia, where they established an agrarian commune called Rosebud Farm. The friends, fueled by idealism and family wealth, committed themselves to farming, fishing, taking great risks, and dealing with the consequences of their choices, among those consequences the tragic death of twenty-four-year-old Charlie Dean.