Sandy lives for baseball. The Asahi team in Vancouver, British Columbia is his favorite. Some of his best memories are going to games with his father and then playing catch in hopes of someday playing on the team himself.
The attack on Pearl Harbor changes everything. Sandy is teased by the kids at school and his family is forbidden from going places because they are seen as the "enemy." His father's services as a doctor are still needed, but he finds it difficult to carry them out because of the curfew and limits on his ability to travel where he is needed.
Some families are moving out of the city voluntarily, seeking shelter in makeshift camps. Then the day arrives that Sandy's father is sent away and Sandy and his mother and little brother are given hours to pack what they can in two suitcases before they are forced to board a train for who knows where.
What follows is living in tight quarters with another family in a ill-constructed cabin. Sandy learns that even though his family is not a war threat they will be living in this camp indefinitely. His father returns only to work long hours at the camp sanitorium caring for the sick while living in the men's dormitory away from his family.
Authors and illustrators J. Torres and David Namisato use their storytelling and artist talents in this graphic novel to recount the history of the imprisonment of citizens of Canada. Much like the camps in the U.S. during WWII, families were taken from their homes never to return to the lives they knew.
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