Price Hardy suffers from a severe case of synesthesia. His world is all about colors-he feels in colors, he reasons in colors, and he frets in colors. But, his injured world of yellow, green, blue, brown, and black, is transformed when he is adopted by a zany retired television personality and encounters a father's unwavering love for the very first time in his life. In the caves of Dragon Mountain, Price discovers purplish and his world will never be the same.