Although raised by her father, sixteen-year old Ginny has always felt a bond with her mother, a Haitian painter whom she has never known. The only mixed-race teen in a Welsh village, Ginny's world is turned upside-down when she discovers she has a white half-brother, and then discovers startling news about her mother. Stunned, Ginny sets off on an urgent quest to find the truth about her past and lay claim to her true identity.