Little Brother now has plenty of food to eat, a fine skyhouse to live in and the love of his Breed wife Sally. But memories of being abandoned at age six by his adoptive mom Mother Warm still haunt his dreams. When new info turns up that she survived the attack on her orphanage by the Church of Flesh goons, he sets out with Sally on a search across the wide expanse of continent Brasilia, on Mother's World, seeking clues to where she went to escape the attention of Church assassins. But as they travel, Little Brother and Sally are met with deadly attacks and covert sabotage. Finally, after discovering the school where Mother Warm learned her biotech skills, Little Brother finds her family. That discovery leads to a trip deep into the jungle to find Mother Warm, a trip that ends in a final battle against an assassin who hates the psychic Talents of both Sally and Little Brother. What he discovers changes his life, his hopes and the future of Mother's World.