Insu encounters many spirits in dreams or in dreamlike episodes perhaps the most enigmatic of these is the Japanese colonel who literally opens the boy's mind. Despite his marriage, Insu's father lives on-base, far from the haunted house the boy and his mother share with a handful of relatives. stationed near the city of Inchon, and a Korean mother, a black-marketeer.
Insu (or Heinz, as he is known to his American schoolteachers) is the son of an American father, a blond G.I. So are alcoholism, prostitution, racism and war. Ghosts and goblins are part of the 1960s Korean experience for this autobiographical novel's young protagonist.
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