This was a book about a young boy and his sister, they are named Hiroshi and Akiko. They had moved to a new Island by their family one day and they thought that it was amazing and they would thrive there. They had a hard time making friends but then they made friends with one of the boys on the island. However after the young boy showing them a lot about the island, they got into a fight because the brother and sister were from the nation that had attacked the boys island in the past. Then they were sad since he didn't play with them and one day because of that Hiroshi tried to go out into the ocean river by himself in a canoe. Hiroshi slowly got pulled out in the ocean yet his friend saved him and they were afraid that they would have drowned until a fisherman saved them and brought them to safety. Then after their lesson from the ocean they all became close friends and vowed never to fight again.