Loie Kristinson dreams of fishing and the sea.
He will become a sailor, no matter what it costs him.
Like his father and his older brother, he longs to sail across the sea under the rays of the midnight sun, chasing fish—sea silver.
But Loie’s mother, having lost her husband at sea, is afraid to lose her eight-year-old son there too…
And so, after long persuading, Loie finally convinces his mother to let him go on a fishing schooner—with real sailors—for one or two voyages…