Just hours after his wife and her entire family perish in the Christmas Eve tsunami in Brisbane, American expat and former police officer Frank Mercy goes out to join his volunteer rescue unit and pulls a little boy from a submerged car, saving the childs life with only seconds to spare. In that moment, Franks own life is transformed. Not quite knowing why, Frank sidesteps the law, when, instead of turning Ian over to the Red Cross, he takes the boy...

Presents photographs of and drawings, letters, and quotations from Mississippi children who lived through Hurricane Katrina as well as pictures of and letters from students in Colorado and California who became pen pals with them.