An impenetrable cloud of dust has settled on the planet, cutting of communications and strangling life. Inexplicable and terrifying this visitation throws up constant sandstorms and as humans have slowly become isolated and hardened against one another – the main aim for most people has become survival. In a desperate quest to find her brother, Abel, the one person who can offer some hope of a resolution, the narrator, a natural survivor, struggles ever deeper into this harsh, blinding landscape. “a collision of Anna Kavan’s heroin-fueled novel Ice and the epic sea shanty that is Moby Dick” “an apocalyptic journey through the barren, mystifying landscape of the human psyche.”