Prologue: Water has a perfect memory, near Shanghai 2016
Part 1. Diving into the wreck, Suzhou 1927-1948
Part 2. The collapse of one mythology, Shanghai 1949-1950
Part 3. The possibility of escape, Shanghai 1950-1957
Part 4. Like bread in our children's mouths, Hong Kong 1957-1960
Part 5. Unable to mourn a body, Hong Kong 1960-1970
Part 6. The invisible world, Northern California 1970-1997
Part 7. The time when we were not, Northern California 1994-2002
Part 8. Burning down the house, every frontier I could find 2002-2015
Part 9. The creation of home, roaming 2015-2022
Epilogue: Touching us back from extinction, the ocean the present.