The fifteenth birthday is a huge event in Latin culture. When a young boy turns fifteen, he is a man. On Ramon's fifteenth birthday a chain of events sets him on course for an adventure on the Caribbean and Atlantic filled with pirates and slavers.

On his fifteenth birthday, the Bella Donna, believed to be a pirate ship, rests in the harbor. Ramon learns that men on that ship know why his father disappeared ten years earlier. He is determined to bring his father back or at least know what happened. This is a story of adventure, of danger, of love, and of family.