This docudrama is about the rise from the ashes of darkness and despondency into a new life of light and hope. Jude is a story of a man spiralling downward into a pit of despair. With his world falling apart and the breakup with his fiancé, he slides into a repressive abyss of life-draining hopelessness. His relationships disintegrate, and his focus turns inward as he struggles to keep from drowning. Jude desperately tries to hold his world and sanity together, not realizing his self-destructive actions are drawing him into his eventual annihilation through suicide. He survives a well-thought-out, planned and executed attempt by throwing himself in front of a speeding train. Through his long, protracted, painful emotional and physical recovery, his life is transformed by the intervention of a few helping hands and the aid of a charitable organization. His journey to recovery is cemented in his outgoing actions of giving of himself to the helping of others. Jude’s experience is now manifested as a guiding light.