Shortly after the first atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, World War II came to an end, and the terrible reality of the atomic age began ... Sixteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu has lived on the Bikini Atoll in the western Pacific all his life. Now the United States government wants to use his home as a site for atomic weapons tests. The islanders are told that they must leave the island in the interest of world peace, but can return when the land is safe again. Sorry is sure that radioactive fall-out will poison the area, and Bikini Atoll will be lost from its people forever. Sorry knows that he has no choice but stop this disaster before it starts -- even if it means standing alone against the U.S. military, and risking his own life to save his ancestral land.