Li Mei, a ten-year old girl from a remote Chinese mountain village is lost to depression. A reoccurring dream, her dead mother vanishing into the earth, offers hope in a future where there seems to be none. Lee May begins to dig in search of a mother’s spirit. Under a downpour, the ground opens up below and LI MEI passes through the Earth, falling into Rosy’s backyard. A one-winged dragonfly in a world of giants, where trees eclipse the sun, Lee May battles loneliness and a crazed mountain man. But, not all is dangerous in this unfamiliar world. Fainting under the touch of a humongous woman, she wakes in a magnificent home. A friendship with Rosy’s sister grows amongst mountains of food, a river of humiliating vomit and a shared loss. To prove to her village, and more importantly herself, that a girl’s life is just as important as a boy’s, Li Mei must survive a showdown with a hideous night demon and protect her new friend from certain death.