Fifteen-year-old Annette, whose dead father was a Nootka Indian, travels with her English mother from their country home on Vancouver Island to the city of Victoria and seeks to find her own way in deciding which cultural heritage she should pursue.
Describes the life of a Chinese immigrant family living in Vancouver, Canada's Chinatown during the years before World War II. The three children in the story find adult friends who take the places of their endlessly working parents.
