Seven-year old Lise's only friend is "P," an imaginary companion who lives behind the wall in her condemned building and who she believes is the brother her too-busy parents aborted years before she was born. When Lise's parents move and the house is demolished, "P" rises as flesh and blood from the rubble. "P" finds his parents and touches their lives in unexpected ways, as he yearns to become truly human. Sadly, with other human beings as his only reference, he becomes whatever people perceive and project on him.