"As a twelve-year-old boy growing up in South Vietnam, Th⁻ has heard of other boys disappearing from time to time, smuggled out of the country so they wouldn't have to be conscripted into the Communist army. But Th⁻ is too young to worry about any of that. He spends his afternoons cricket fighting and playing soccer with his friends. Until one day, he finds out that his parents have arranged for him to leave the country -- alone. What follows...

Fynn longs to live in a square house like all his friends, instead of in the lighthouse his family has lived in for generations, but when he gets lost at sea one night, he discovers how special his home really is.