Until Paul McMarty was 6 years old he lived a jolly and happy life as the only child of his parents, William McMarty, a trained Royal Navy captain and Mary McMarty, a primary-school teacher in Liverpool, England. But when he is 6 years old and his mother dies suddenly in a car crash he is thrown into a world of uncertainty. But he has his father, a strong foothold in his life. But now even he is supposed to go away, to fight and regain the Falkland Islands..