Tomi was created in Hawaii. His grandfather and parents had been delivered in Japan, and found America to flee poverty.

World War II seems far away from Tomi and his friends, who are too busy playing ball on the eighth-grade team, the Rats.

But then Pearl Harbor is attacked by japan, and america declares battle on Japan. Japanese men are curved up, and Tomi’s dad and grandfather are caught. It’s a terrifying time for you to be Japanese in America. But one thing doesn’t alter: the devotion of Tomi’s buddies, the Rats.