Aralyn Ash is only five years old when her dad goes to war. He gives Aralyn a very special box which is placed on the top shelf in their secret hideout he says she can only open it when she is tall enough to reach it. Aralyn tries year after year, month after month, day after day to reach the little box her father placed so high up, but she never can....until one year, her tippy toeing Might. Just. Work. Will she reach the box? What would be in it? And what happens when the most devastating thing takes place?