Last Sam's Cage is the remarkable story of fifteen-year-old Eddie Slater. Already labeled a young offender, Eddie runs away from an abusive stepfather and takes up residence at the Calgary Zoo. There he meets Jack, a middle-aged man who has been coming to the zoo?s playground every day for thirty-two years to watch the children. Convinced that Jack is either a pervert of just plain weird, Eddie follows him home one day, and eventually breaks into his house to see what he can find. He discovers more than he bargained for?and that discovery changes both Eddie and Jack for good.