Winner of the Australian/Vogel Literary Award. The story of a journey through both a psychic and geographic landscape, a journey through disintegration and loss. Hiam, an Arab migrant woman, abandons Adelaide to unravel her life and memories on the road North after her family and identity have been destroyed. In the course of the novel she weaves an identity out of the past, present, stories, dreams and the Australian landscape with which she engages for the first time.