Thirteen-year-old David Kealoha dreams of escaping rural Hawaii. But when Jonah Morris, a white kid from Phoenix, Arizona moves into the neighborhood, tragedy strikes, irrevocably changing the trajectory of David’s life and those closest to him.

While grieving over a death, Mika takes his older cousin, Kekoa, to haunted spots around Oʻahu to prove the existence of the afterlife. They discover that each handles loss in exceptionally different ways.