One of the few examples of Anglophone Spanish Caribbean magical realism, this novel follows the journey of a literary figurist, Leon-Battista Mondaal. He is traveling in an ethnographic team sent to record the annual masquerade held Christmas Eve in the east coast villages of Guyana when disaster strikes. This natural disaster not only destroys the region, population, and crew, but also Leon-Battista's memory. He is left to dually recall and construct his identity. Questioning the hegemony of recorded history, this story develops a striking contrast between time and experience.

Acknowledging an inheritance fostered in the seed bed and transitional territory of Guyana, South America, this work is a gifted assay in three poems on the community of humanity and its expeditions in imaginative territory. Legend, myth, and intuition find equal footing with Heidegger, quantum physics, and qualitative theory.