In the year 2032, Vicente, an eight-year-old Caribbean boy displaced by global warming, fends for himself as an environmental refugee in a hostile northern metropolis. Orphaned and haunted by memories of the flooding that left him homeless, Vicente forms an unexpected friendship with an Inuk ice carver who helps him confront his past. Explores the social and political implications of future migration patterns triggered by climate disaster, projecting that as many as 1 billion people could become environmental refugees by mid-century.