This is the first part of a fantastical novel about the Isle of Iphegenia, a place that knows of no mainland, that is peopled by people like those known to all of us; those who think of themselves as kind and intellectual, those who are venal, those who are scared, and those who are frightened. Something is coming, though. The days have been good - perhaps too good - and some of the islanders know that a correction is inevitable. They cannot know, though, just how terrible that correction might be...