Fourteen-year-old Hanna, who is half Chinese, settles with her father in the frontier town of LaForge, in Dakota Territory in 1880. She hopes she can attend school before becoming a dressmaker in her father's dry goods shop, but first she must deal with racism from the local townspeople who are afraid to have their children attend class with her, grief from the loss of her mother, and a yearning to belong as she and her father struggle to find a place where they will be accepted.
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