Three teenagers, three decades, one hope: to arrive. Three gripping and moving stories of escape from 1939, 1994, and 2015.

When one's home becomes a place of fear and inhumanity, it is no longer a home. Josef is 11 when he has to flee Germany with his family from the Nazis in 1939. Isabel lives in Cuba in 1994 and suffers from hunger – she too embarks on a dangerous journey to the promised America. And 12-year-old Mahmoud leaves his devastated hometown of Aleppo in 2015 to start anew in Germany. Alan Gratz skillfully weaves together the stories and fates of three children from different times. He tells their stories in an unsentimental yet deeply moving way. A timeless book about displacement and hope, about the longing for home and arrival.