In a suicide pact to escape their parents, a young girl leads her two brothers into raging waters. Catapulted out and half-dead, they make their way to New Orleans, hiding and carving out resourceful lives with the help of blind old Miss Tulie. As the shifting of the magnetic poles begins to transform the world, the future rushes forward with strange and unforeseen consequences. "A courageous runaway survival story." "A tale of heart-rending adventure...