A cocky wise-cracking young Juvenile Probation Officer battles troubled lives and senseless deaths as he establishes a career and finds adventure friendship romance and a new home in Hawkins County. Although fictionalized this bittersweet story is based on actual people and events on a small rural county. But Hawkins County is more than a corrections casework study. It is a trip back to the 1970's and it's all here - the movies the TV shows the tunes the jokes the humor the heartache Vietnam - all the elements that influenced our lives during the era. Hawkins County is for baby boomers Vietnam veterans law enforcement officials social workers youth counselors probation officers - yes even juvenile delinquents and others who have found themselves on the wrong side of the law - and everyone else who savors a nostalgic story about life as it happened during the 1970's.