When the world gives you nothing, you take what you can.Young Ren is missing both his parents and his hand. Worse still, he doesn't know what happened to any of them. All he knows is Saint Anthony's, the cold New England orphanage in which he has grown up. One day an exciting stranger arrives and to Ren's astonishment the glamorous Benjamin Nab says he is his brother come to bring him home. Even when Benjamin puts Ren first to theft and then to grave-robbing, Ren cannot quite abandon hope that one day all the hunger and danger and unwanted excitement will be worth it, that he will find a family.