The story of how humans are immigrants from another place, a planet square as a box from which we had to evacuate. We no longer remember the square planet, but keep building square boxes here on Earth. Nora is a rebellious teen-aged girl struggling to find a sense of identity, she is searching for some-one that will understand.

A meteor shower occurs when Earth collides with particles and small stones from space. The dust grains in the Leonid meteor shower burn up as they enter the Earth's atmosphere at a speed of 250,000 kilometers per hour. This is what we call shooting stars. Every 33 years, there is a chance that a meteor shower will cause at least 1,000 star shots per hour.

One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you? and "Where does the world come from?