This is a story of exploration and discovery, a journey of friendship and solitude, a quest to fuel an obsessive passion. Told through five separate stories, Paul Robinson is the common thread that links each story together. He battles adversity in Russia, is overwhelmed by rock in the southeastern United States, builds new friendships in Spain, finds the Shangri-La of bouldering in Zimbabwe and finally returns back home to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado where he reawakens his appreciation for his local bouldering.