Twelve year old Vahan's greatest worries were about his father's disapproval and harrassing his sisters. That is, until, things changed in Turkey. One day his father is taken away in handcuffs and his world is never the same again. In the next three years Vahan learns to be a prisoner, a fugetive, a servant, a beggar, and a stowaway to survive one of the forgotten genocides in World History.