This is the story of Isao Dazai, a Japanese-born man who has recently immigrated to Australia with his family. The future that Isao lives in is a world of mass race segregation where each of the world's cities have been divided into three separate walled ghettos, defined by three 'mass racial' categories: Asian, African and Caucasian. Living in Asian-Sydney, Isao knows that simply wanting to cross the city's boundaries is one of the greatest of crimes in this new world, as is his inability to leave his Japanese culture behind. Within months of arriving in Sydney, he is charged with the crime...

Peek presents a fictional autobiography of a man who Rhas been nowhere, done nothing, and met nobody.

The third and final novel in Ben Peek's epic Children trilogy, continuing from The Godless and Leviathan's Blood.