The year is 1914 and Kunti, an Indian woman working as an indentured laborer on a Fijian plantation, has gone missing. Policeman Akal Singh, still stinging from a scandal that ended his career in Hong Kong, sees a chance to prove himself to his superiors by locating the woman and her missing overseer…but the ensuing investigation reveals some uncomfortable truths about the nature of Fijian society. Unusual in its evocation of a time and place, this is a book that informs even as it entertains.