Whiti Hereaka is een gevierde romanschrijver en toneelschrijver wiens werken diepgaande menselijke thema's verkennen door middel van boeiende verhalen. Haar romans onderscheiden zich door een unieke stijl en een scherp inzicht in de menselijke psyche. Hereaka is ook een begenadigd dramaturge, die verhalen tot leven brengt op het toneel. Haar literaire bijdragen verleggen de grenzen van de hedendaagse literatuur.
Set in a small New Zealand town, the story follows three young people in their final school year, emphasizing the seemingly uneventful nature of their lives. However, the arrival of a new character, Stone Cold, disrupts their routine and prompts each of them to reevaluate their perspectives and aspirations, leading to unexpected developments in their relationships and futures.
Seventeen-year-old Riki is worried about his girlfriend Gemma, who has stopped seeing or texting him. On his way to see her, he's hit by a bus and his life changes. Riki wakes up one hundred years earlier in Egypt, in 1915, living through his great-great-grandfather's experiences in the Maori Contingent.