Jack Ugly has a hard life, suffering from numerous disabilities and the heartless taunts from the other kids at school. Plus his parents have a strange affinity with the letter "J" This complicates his life even more as he struggles to keep his sanity and his hear pure, when Janita Jinovo appears into his life he understands what it is to live and be happy, even if only for a short while. Finally he realizes that a human can be a joyful existence when the people who live in your life are willing to see the real you and are willing to understand that behind all the disfiguring ailments there lies a person with justified emotions and possibly a heart of gold. Once Jack's eyes are fully opened up to the joys that life has to offer, then without warning Jack is hastily thrust back into the cruel world of rejection he has always been forced to endure. His home life and school life have become predictably intolerable after what happened at the school prom. Never once in Jack's mind had ever considered himself to be something special or someone that people would suddenly aspire to be? Why would they, he has lisp, two major deformities and is shunned by all in his life,including his parents and sisters, no there is no way anyone would wish to him? So what could possibly happen to change all this? Maybe it has something to do with his parents weirder than usual association with the letter "J" or maybe we all have to experience a life and death situation to fully understand someone else's life.