A genuine soul surfer, Jimmy was drafted to Vietnam where the carnage of war threw him into a massive emotional wipe-out that nearly destroyed him and kept him under and out of reach of the love-of-his-life (Sue). Jimmy has never let the war go and continues to fight in another war against an army of Nejos (poacher bandits) in Baja, who would slaughter the last sea turtle on earth to sell on the black market. Jimmy knows he's a different man than the one who left Sue so many years ago and feels her life is better without him. Tortured by demons, feeling tarnished by war and unworthy of love, Jimmy lives with a sustained fear of rejection, - especially rejection by Sue. In reality, Jimmy is a far better and stronger man than the one who went to war and while others see this about him, he cannot. He has no idea Sue was
ever pregnant.