"Hello out there Do you have ears to listen?" Mia asks. Ten year-old Mia, her father dead, two sisters missing, is left with Mother and a baby brother. Her country, Korea, is ravaged by a war. Extreme hunger and cold await. What's more, Mia is thrown into ruthless discrimination as "the family of the Reds." In her desperate quest for survival she works as a "shoe-shine-boy." Without education, there is no hope, but she has no money to pay for it. Tormented, she chooses to go to an orphanage to get a free education. Against all odds, she perseveres and becomes a pediatrician in the U.S. After 35 years of not knowing whether her sisters are alive or dead, Mia begins a sobering extraordinary journey to North Korea and finds her homeland changed incomprehensibly. Would she find her sisters to be all right? How about their families? Will she give her niece the future that was stolen from her sisters? Will her nuclear scientist nephew survive? Will she forge a hopeful future after the hauntingly terrifying past?