The author's efforts to free himself from his ministerial calling, which was imposed on him since childbirth, leads him to break free from his family and ethnic tradition. His journey eventually takes him away from his rural roots in the Philippines to a rural town in the United States where he lives for 30 years as a college professor and pastor. There he experiences a dramatic religious conversion that gives fresh meaning and impetus to his calling. Having spent equal times immersed in two different cultures, he realizes that he is a world citizen and he celebrates by rediscovering his roots.