Raven leaves her Salish home on B.C.'s Sunshine Coast in search of her missing sister Marcie, reportedly "working" on Vancouver's lower east side. When Raven wanders Lost Alley near Hastings, flashing Marcie's picture and asking tough questions, she gets a host of testimonials from the addicted and homeless, but few answers. When Ben and Bertie, a young boy and elderly woman living on the street, tell her Marcie is wanted by a kidnapping ring abducting children to be smuggled across the Pacific for auction to sweatshops in the East, Raven puts together clues from Marcie's recovered diary and traces the culprits to the docks. Based on true stories of those living in the worst ghetto in North America, with an appendix of help-line and resource information, this hard-edged story is part harsh truth, part preventative fiction.