Virginia was born in 1986 in the Caribbean Sea. Like her siblings before her, she sees the light of day on board the Artemis. The sailing ship is the pride and joy of her father Peter Tangvald: he spent nine years building it and now sails from port to port with his family. But he will eventually perish because of his great dream of freedom: off the island of Bonaire, the Artemis is shipwrecked, Virginia's father and sister are killed. Her brother is the only survivor - until he later disappears on the high seas himself. Although Virginia left the ship with her mother at the age of two, tragedy and life at sea have never left her. How can she escape her father's shadow? How to fix one's own origins between the world's oceans? An incredible family story of freedom at any price, a moving odyssey from Bonaire via Puerto Rico to Paris - and a tribute to the power of storytelling.