Attempting to escape the complexities of modern civilization, the protagonist journeys to the Outer Hebrides where he encounters rivalry, love, and epic violence. In a breath-taking style that surpasses all his earlier works, Morris West has created an epic novel of life existed against the hardest and most devastating elements.

          It is a novel centred around two men and two women in the process of rejecting the complexities and torments of everyday life, in a setting which could be anywhere in the world.