Isidora is leading an idyllic life on a beautiful island far in the future. At a picnic on a bluff above the sea, two-year-old Riku falls over the edge to certain death, except, something invisible stops him. He bounces back up to the top and is saved. Isidora is only 11 years old herself, but even she thought that couldn't happen. Later, talking to her best friend, Annie, who is always so smart, she finds that Annie saw it and didn't understand it either. The two girls set out on a quest to learn the secrets of the island, where no one ever arrives, and no one ever leaves, where the mayor rules with an iron fist, and even the adults don't have all the answers. When Isidora and Annie become teenagers, they go on an exploratory trip to the mainland, where their world expands...
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