Each day wrecks are towed into Paradise Salvage where the ferocious crusher presides. But on a hot summer day in 1979, in the trunk of an abandoned Pontiac Bonneville, twelve-year-old Nunzio Paradiso uncovers a secret that will change his life. In the blink of an eye, all evidence is lost to the crusher, and only his older brother Danny Boy believes Nunzio's story of what he saw there.