One month it's hula, surf, fish, and building canoes. The next week it's 3-D printing, bio-science, ancient movies and classic rock. Fifteen-year-old Keala’s home in the Bay is the end of one world, the beginning of another, and she loves it all. She gets to spend time with both her father, whose community has turned back to the old ways, embracing traditional Hawaiian culture and rejecting technology; and her mother, a former US Navy marine mammal researcher trapped in the Bay for the past fifteen years by autonomous missile-drones that scour the seas for any sign of technology. Keala is the only one accepted by both groups, apart from a crazy old surfer who acts as peacemaker and negotiator. But that perfect life is torn apart when unexpected violence exposes betrayals that turn Keala’s life upside down. She discovers her mother has violated the agreement that allows her to stay in the Bay, continuing her taboo genetic experiments, and some of the orcas that arrived with the Navy ship are more than they seem. As one painful secret after another is revealed, Keala must somehow forge a working relationship with a wise-cracking, nine-thousand pound marine predator if she’s to have any chance of figuring out the meaning of home.