On a remote Scottish island, 14-year-old Max's life is changed forever when he loses his hearing in a boating accident. He has to navigate a new silent world alone--even his parents don't understand that wearing a hearing aid doesn't mean he hears clearly. On top of that, he's placed in a special educational needs class surrounded by kids he once picked on. When people start acting strangely and Max's hearing aid picks up odd sounds from a new wind...

The adventures of a spirited boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century, as he tries a new method for curing warts, witnesses a murder, runs away to an island and pretends to be a pirate, watches his own funeral, and falls for the new girl in the neighborhood.