Part 2 of Jonathan Batchelor’s life opens with his homecoming to the Bay Area from a conscientious objector’s camp in Waldport, Oregon. With the return, his life was in pieces with a pending acrimonious divorce, no place to live, and no work. His good friend of many years, Anna McNamee, tried to assist him in any way possible by holding onto his possessions, and although she offered her apartment as a place to stay, he preferred living in his old carriage house art studio until he could find a place of his own.