While visiting Greece, thirteen-year-old Plato Jones tries to come to terms with his mixed heritage as he finds out more about his two grandfathers, the Welsh one, a World War II hero, and the Greek one, a supposed traitor.
Sent to stay next door with the seemingly pleasant Aunt Sunday, eight-year-old Cora is tormented by Aunt Sunday's mean-spirited, deceitful daughter, but finds an ally in Aunt Sunday's elderly mother.
Nine-year-old Phillip has always lived with his grandmother, but when his widowed father remarries he finds that he must suddenly adjust to a new way of life with his father and stepmother.
