The story of San Pattica, a high school age student who was born to a Cameroonian father and Cambodian mother, and his struggles with his mixed race identity. His mother left him to be raised by his grandmother; his father left Cambodia after finishing his term as a United Nations Peacekeeper in the early 1990s. Eventually Pattica winds up being sent to an orphanage. Pattica discovers that he has a half-sister, Pattina, the daughter of his mother and a man from Ghana. Being half-black and half Cambodian, Pattica and Pattina grapple with the racism they encounter. Meanwhile, Pattica tries to track down his father.