This evocative story follows the stripping away, layer by layer, of the facade of a seemingly perfect marriage. David and Sally appear to be an ideally matched couple. David's work has taken them to the South Pacific nation of New Sudan where they lead a self-indulgent colonial life whilst waiting f[...]
On a South Pacific island during the last decades of the twentieth century, indigenes, migrant workers and European managers struggle to understand and define themselves and their place in the incomprehensible world shaped by the Van Island Palm Oil Development Company. A volatile and brutal state o[...]