Lionel Froad hopes to rediscover Lobo, his alter ego from ancestral times, while on an architectural survey in the horn of Africa. Instead, he finds himself having complex relationships between his filial, white boss and a stunning girl from Wales, both of whom distract him from his goal. Eventually, Lionel is forced to recognize the painful division between his New World self and ancestry as a result of slavery and centuries of separation.

Denis Williams is the author of Icon and Image and Prehistoric Guiana. He was a renowned artist in the West Indies and a former director of the Walter Roth Museum of Archaeology and Art.