Summary

Twenty-five-year-old Lucy Irvine is in a dinghy piloted by two Torres Strait Islanders navigating the brilliant blue expanse between the Coral and Arafura Seas, between the Northern tip of Australia and Papua New Guinea. Also in the small craft are Gerald Kingsland, with whom Lucy will be spending the next year on an uninhabited nearby island, and a photographer hired by a London magazine to document their landing. The dinghy is overloaded with luggage and equipment, and Lucy remarks that they still do not know the name of the island selected by the Australian government for her and “G”, as she calls the 51-year-old Kingsland, to live on. After the Island boys help unload the dinghy onto the beach and leave without a word, G and the photographer immediately seek shade from the hot sun...