Weight of the Moon is a flash back retelling of a Black soldier banished to a small Asian fishing village who falls in live with the village magistrates fianc. Framed for a series of robberies and then an accidental murder, the fiance twice trades her life for his freedom leaving him haunted by the choices they faced. Images of a war, a trial and a daring escape orchestrated by the narrator round out the answers sought by a young woman searching for the story of her parents.