This moving novel of self-discovery and awareness takes place during the Oka crisis in the summer of 1990; a 78 day stand-off between the Quebec Police and the Mohawk people who were fighting to reclaim their land. Adopted as an infant, Carrie has always felt somehow out of place. Recurring dreams haunt her, warning that someone close to her will be badly hurt. When she finds out that her birth father is Mohawk, living in Kahnawake, Quebec, she makes the journey and finally achieves a sense of home and belonging.