Synopsis

Young Soon has one desire – she wants to hear her children laugh. A widow, pregnant with her third child, Young Soon cooks grass soup just to survive.

The town loud speaker, her only news source, brags daily that her beloved North Korea is prospering while the rest of the world is starving. She believes the loud speakers and is shocked when her brother, a military soldier, informs her that millions in North Korea are starving. A smuggled newspaper reveals there is food just over the border in China.

Will Young Soon be forced to abandon her communist beliefs? Must she risk her life and the lives of her children to cross the guarded Tumen River?

Inside China, 21-year-old Mei Lin (the lead character in Hope’s last two novels, Daughter of China and Across the China Sky) launches her first missionary tour. While on a journey of miracles, Mei Lin has a heart-pounding dream of a baby crying out to her from murky waters. Who is this baby? How will she find him?