It is 1910 - Maia, orphaned at 13, travels from England to start a new
life with distant relatives in Manaus, hundreds of miles up the Amazon.
She is very unhappy with her exceptionally bizarre new family but befriends
Finn, a mysterious English boy who lives with the local Indians and shares
her passion for the jungle. Then Finn's past life catches up with him and
they are forced to flee far upriver in a canoe...