The death of his grandfather forces a fifteen-year-old Iban boy to face the conflict between the traditions and beliefs of his tribe and the modern ways he has learned at a Western-style boarding school.
While on an expedition with his uncle in the jungles of Borneo in 1920, fifteen-year-old Harry Windsor is captured by Bayang, a young Iban tribesman, who believes that Harry has some power to help him and an outcast Iban girl on their dream quest.
