Five men and two women become the victims of ship-wreck and appear on the uninhabited island, inhabited by blind birds and giant lizards. Deprived waters, meal and hope on a rescue heroes force to resist to not only coming death but also the own past, from that they tried to run and that now pursues them in dreams and hallucinations, almost indistinguishable from reality. Tracing a way, that each of them will choose in face of death, lighting up the darkest corners of their souls, Стиг Дагерман (1923-1954) investigates nature of sense of guilt, fear and loneliness. The Roman written only for two weeks in summer of 1946 became the manifest of Swedish modernism and converted an author into a cult writer.