Events
- Brian thinks he knows the reason behind his parents' divorce. Unfortunately, he sees his mother and a strange man kissing. This is a great burden on him.
- He went to visit his father from The States to Northern Canada. Before he left, his mother gave him a gift, the hatchet. Brian took it and his mother makes him wear it in his belt. Brian doesn't know that the hatchet will be important later on.
- While in the plane, over the Canadian wilderness, the pilot had a massive heart attack and dies. Brian took over the plane and the pilot as long as possible.
- The plane ran out of gas, and ended up crashing at the edge of the lake. Brian then realizes he is stranded in the Canadian wilderness, where he will be for the next 54 days.
- He decided to think positive and calmly makes stock of what he has. Brian makes his shelter and after that, he looks for something to eat. Then, he found a bush of berries that he ate. It caused him diarrhea and he vomited outside his new shelter. Then he finds for better berries and saw a bear that somewhat looked like the bear he saw in India.
- A porcupine attacked Brian at the middle of the night. He threw his hatchet that his mother gave him. Brian saw that it made fire and there, he makes his first fire. He spends a lot of time to get woods from the forest and tries to make his fire going.
- After he made a spear and failed catching a fish, he then made a bow and arrow. Brian catches his first fish and missed the plane that passed him. He knows that he'll stay in the wilderness for a long time, but also that he will survive because he will fish to eat.
- Brian learns how to spear birds h=and has his first meat. Unfortunately, threat of nature, moose and tornado, destroys his hard works and he has to rebuild all of them. He thought it's like taking one step forward then two steps back.
- After the tornado, Brian sees that the plane was twisted, Brian swam to the plane then got a survival bag out of the plane. this will take him a lot of courage and craftsmanship.
- Brian is found just after he discovers the contents of the survival bag, and he returns to civilization. He has a new perspective on his parents' divorce and vows to keep the knowledge of his mother and the other man a secret.