It is a spiritual truth of life that the darkness appears greatest just before the dawn. Life often appears most bleak and hopeless just at the moment it is preparing greater opportunity. We sometimes require the pressure of dire external conditions to awaken and release the inner intensity required for a great progress in life. At those times, life presents the very conditions needed to call forth our hidden resources and trigger a corresponding response from the universe around us. Literature and cinema are filled with such instances, but we readily dismiss them as romance or drama. But life too confirms this truth in real stories such as this one.