Bart, he's a cheerful and lively boy who loves listening to music. On that one day when he returned home after a fun time playing outside his house, he saw his father burning some of his football equipment. Despite seeing the mess in the house, Bart did not dare to ask about what happened. His mother then asked him what he was carrying, and Bart replied that the thing he was holding was a space combat helmet that he had made himself from old cardboard boxes. His mother appreciated Bart's imagination about things related to outer space, but this was not the case with his father.
Bart's father is a violent man. He often beats Bart and always forbids him to do the things he likes and to have dreams. According to is father, there is nothing good about dreams. Dreams only make a person avoid reality. Therefore, when his father asked what he was holding, Bart said it was just trash, and then his father took him away and burned it along other things. Later that night, Bart hears his parents having a big fight. Mark then puts on headphones and listens to music, pretending to sleep because he doesn't want to hear their quarrel.
The next day, his mother asked Bart to join the church's camp. His mom once barked to enjoy the time by having fun, making new friends and creating memories. Once at the camp, Bart meets a girl named Shannon during the camp. He makes good friends with Kent and Shannon during the program. Each child gets a journal that they have to fill in with whatever they think, just like a diary. But for Shannon, the journal is not just a journal, but rather a piece that can make her mind more organized.
She can write about everything in it, such as her prayers, her problems, her dreams, and also things in her imagination. Bart is curious to see what's in Shannon's journal. But Shannon shuts him out. Bart finally happened to see the contents of Shannon's journal, which Shannon accidentally dropped it when she collided with Kent. Inside, her journal is written that Shannon likes Bart. Bart quickly closes the journal and then gives it back to Shannon before he goes to bed.
Bart draws his thoughts in his journal, a little boy with a monster. Out of the blue, Kent, who sleeps on the top bunk, appears and startles Bart. Kent praises Barts drawing skills. Then he invites Kent, then orders Bart and Shannon to sit on a bridge facing the north while he leaves somewhere. At that moment, Shannon mustered the courage to ask Bart whether he saw what was written in her journal. Bart then lied and said that he didn't see anything.
Shannon doesn't believe him. She then says that she wrote about her feelings for Bart because she hoped that one day the two of them would fall in love and get married.
After telling him that, Shannon is embarrassed and runs to go after Kent, but Bart holds her down so that she can't go. Not because he's afraid. It's just that Bart doesn't like being alone. A moment later, fireworks lighting up the night sky it was Captain prepared the fireworks the next day. Before going to their respective homes, Shannon gives Bart a cassette tape that contains her favorite song called Never Alone.
Some by a singer named Amy Grant. Shannon tells Bart that one day she wants to be a singer like Amy Grant. In his journal, Mark writes that it was one of the best weeks of his life. Arriving home, Bart sees movers carrying things from his house. He rushes into the house looking for his mother, but his father says that his mother has run away. Bart then asks his dad when will his mom come back, and his dad says for the second time that his mom ran away and won't come back, knowing that his mother is often hurt by his father.
Bart then asks what his father has done to make her leave. Barts question ignited his father's anger to the point that Bart and receive abuse from his father. Bart then runs out after the movers. He screams for his mother's forgiveness, and he asks what he has done so that he has to be left behind with his father. Since then, his mother still occasionally calls him to find out how Bart is doing. When Barbara's in junior high school, he lived with his mother. But his mother's fate turned out to be no better. After being married to her new husband, and one day his father threatened to kill his mother's husband. He still dared to hurt her after that incident.
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