The story of a coho, Sumi, from her birth in a remote creek and her trip down river to the ocean, to her time as a mature fish in the seas, and finally her return to the place of her birth, where she spawns and dies.
Taken from her small, impoverished Chinese village and forced to sew in a New York City sweatshop, thirteen-year-old Suyin is visited by the cranes with which she has a strange connection and learns she is the daughter of the Crane Queen, who needs her help.
