Strength and Beauty

14- year old Chinese- American girl JínYú Seto lives happily like any other normal teen girl in California. She wakes up every morning in a warm bed, eats breakfast, goes to a prestigious school, aces at popularity and has a fun-loving family. But that kind of life is only possible with money. Care- free and happy JinYu learns the true meaning of suffering when an ill-fated tsunami strikes her hometown. The tsunami destroys not only her house and family shop, but in it's trail, leaves her family broken. Fear and pain shadow the Seto family. JínYú's every step is heavy and dark, now that her life is reduced to living in a shack and struggling to sustain her family. With each individual struggle, JínYú learns about herself and the world. "You don't grow up with age, you grow up with experience." JínYú quotes.