Haunted by a horrible memory from the war, alone since his grown children moved out, Vietnam vet Charles Boatman returns to Vietnam thirty years after the war. Beautiful, smart, competent Ada follows her missing father to Vietnam. Her search for him tears her open in ways she could not have guessed, and Vietnam finds its way in. Shifting between the Pacific Northwest and Vietnam—between Charles’ and Ada’s points of view, their journeys become increasingly colorful and complex. The suspense builds, dreamlike, to a paradoxical climax of revelation and obfuscation, love and grief.