Prologue: Water has a perfect memory, near Shanghai 2016 -- Part 1. Diving into the wreck, Suzhou 1927-1948 -- Part 2. The collapse of one mythology, Shanghai 1949-1950 -- Part 3. The possibility of escape, Shanghai 1950-1957 -- Part 4. Like bread in our children's mouths, Hong Kong 1957-1960 -- Part 5. Unable to mourn a body, Hong Kong 1960-1970 -- Part 6. The invisible world, Northern California 1970-1997 -- Part 7. The time when we were not, Northern California 1994-2002 -- Part 8. Burning down the house, every frontier I could find 2002-2015 -- Part 9. The creation of home, roaming 2015-2022 -- Epilogue: Touching us back from extinction, the ocean the present.