A new novel from the master of elegant prose Linda Saule! Emma has not been to the Isle of Man for ten long years, but now she returns to find her missing childhood friend. Their paths diverged, but the two women continue to be connected by a tangled chain of bad decisions, one of the links of which is a mysterious guy in a motorcycle jacket. Emma is gradually immersed in the unhurried life of an island cut off from the mainland. She will have to relive the events of her youth and reconstruct the chronicle of the last years of her friend’s life in order to understand why everyone around them behaves as if nothing had happened.