More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives back in their homelands. But miraculously, someone has survived the passage: nine-year-old Amir, a Syrian boy who is soon rescued by Vänna ... A moving novel that looks at the global refugee crisis through the eyes of a child.