Paul's pretty sure his mother doesn't love him: why else would she go away to Canada and leave him with his gran in Barbados for six whole years? She was supposed to send for him one year after she went away, and then two years, and then three... but there was always something else she needed to do first.

He hasn't seen his mother since he was four, and now he's leaving behind all his friends and family on the island to go live with her in a place called Saskatchewan. There will be a long plane ride, a visit with his uncle in Toronto, another plane ride, and then-he's not sure. He's only ever seen Canada in calendar pictures. Will he even like it there?

He'll have to go to a new school, and make new friends, and learn about a whole new country, and learn how to be a family with the mother he doesn't know that well anymore. But he's been waiting so long for the chance at a life in Canada.

Full of hopes and nervous butterflies, Paul gets on the plane...