Gypsy siblings Iara, seventeen, and Xabi, four, are kidnapped by slavers and taken to a land far from their own, where they escape into a town that hates foreigners. The only help they find is Nen, a young, foreign thief who helps them at great personal expense and then attempts to get them home.

But Iara’s impatience endangers them, especially the young thief who worked so hard to help them. It will take great sacrifice on Iara’s part to right her wrong and save her friend, after which she hopes to drag him on a long, dangerous journey home.

Too bad home doesn’t turn out to be what any of them expected and longed for.