For ten year-old Jeremiah Prins, the life of privilege as
the son of a school headmaster in the Dutch East Indies
comes crashing to a halt in 1942 after the Japanese
Imperialist invasion of the Southeast Pacific. Jeremiah
takes on the responsibility of caring for his younger
siblings when his father and older stepbrothers are
separated from the rest of the family, and he is surprised
by what life in the camp reveals about a woman he barely
knows—his frail, troubled mother.
Amidst starvation, brutality, sacrifice and generosity,
Jeremiah draws on all of his courage and cunning to fill in
the gap for his mother. Life in the camps is made more
tolerable as Jeremiah’s boyhood infatuation with his close
friend Laura deepens into a friendship from which they both
draw strength.
When the darkest sides of humanity threaten to overwhelm
Jeremiah and Laura, they reach for God’s light and grace,
shining through his people. Time and war will test their
fortitude and the only thing that will bring them safely to
the other side is the most enduring bond of all.
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