Molecular biologist Evan Pannick encounters complete powerlessness in
the midst of a personal medical crisis that his doctors do not
understand, when he and his girls soccer team are held hostage by an
inmate at the Federal Correctional Institute in Lexington, Kentucky.
Modern medicine is supposed to have all the answers. Inmates in Federal
Prisons are not supposed to be able to take hostages outside prison
walls. Molecular biologist Evan Pannick is just supposed to get his
biomedical grant out on time, coach soccer and enjoy his quietly subdued
academic life. On One Freak Day everything changes and Evan Pannick
finds himself unwillingly transferred from his peaceful academic world
to the center of a deepening dilemma fraught with multiple challenges in
an escalating situation that threatens him, his daughter and the girls
he coaches. Centered in Lexington, Kentucky, the story shuttles between
hometown quirkiness and the Federal Prison on the outskirts of town.