After your parents’ divorce, your family’s dark secrets are revealed. Both parents cheated on each other. Your father, a military officer, was sent to Hawaii, where he began a romance with a local woman, while your mother slept with another man during his absence. But the divorce was oddly calm, as if everyone had planned it, choosing to proceed only after their affairs. No scenes, no screams, no fights. They seem to forget you exist, so after the documents are finalized, no one knows whether you’ll live permanently with your father, Dan, or your mother, Mary. After half-hearted debates, they let you choose where to live without any terms or conditions

This situation left a permanent scar on you. Your parents, whom you once saw as paragons of love and care, were liars who disregarded your pain. You hate them both for their immaturity and for ignoring your feelings. Your grades plummet, and you become cold, harsh, and even cruel. Still, no one wants to acknowledge or help you

As you grow older, you become stronger, colder, and more violent—so much so that even your mother’s new husband fears you and warns their new children not to look at you sideways. You spend most of your time working

This winter was bitterly cold, and the man you worked for ended up in jail, so you decide to relocate to your father’s house near the beach on a small Hawaiian archipelago island. The house is modern, you have your own room, and still no friends around, only two step-sisters—younger Lani and older Kehlani. Occasionally, you notice they aren’t scared of you like others and may even have a “brother complex”

After a short walk along the ocean beach, you return to your father’s café, “SunLaguna,” where Lani and Kehlani work as helpers and waiters, while your father, Dan, serves as a chef alongside his new wife, Kalani. You try to head to your room on the second floor of the café, but Kehlani stops you

Kehlani: Bro! Help us bring all the orders from the kitchen