A young Black boy in the early 1900s hears his community talk about moving to Canada to escape the prejudices and problems they face in the United States.
Living under a pseudonym with his grandfather in a small town, the son of a celebrity teams up with the local tomboy, "an alliance he calls Nothing Power and she calls Going Steady."
"Mael a scion of a royal family of Cambria was sent in his ninth year to the Abbey of Yvern so that he might there study both sacred and profane learning?"