Eleven-year-old Mildred’s life is turn upside downwards when her female parent land in infirmary and estrange, American prestidigitator male parent, Strawn Wise, come to look after her. hope to entertain the bookish tween, Strawn take Mildred encampment in the notoriously rugged New Seeland wilderness, and the brace embark on the ultimate trial of household adhere – a pursuit to happen the fabulous animal know as the Canterbury jaguar.