In this collection of short stories, Colin Ryan, an Irish-language writer from Australia, makes his own of the language and gives it a unique Australian twist. The stories touch on travellers, criminals, soldiers, the dead, people who have gone missing, people who are searching for others, and those who are being searched for. Like a dream, or a surreal alternate universe, themes of love and hatred are examined, life and death, sadness and anxiety, so that we are never really sure where we stand and our only option is to look again and revisit these perceptive stories.