Jerod Alexandre, a "wayward" Jesuit, is banished to the missions to proselytize an "uncontacted" tribe in the Peruvian Amazon. Wanting only to assuage the guilt plaguing him following the death of his lover, or die in this remote and dangerous area of the rainforest, he flies headlong into the challenge, but with no desire to convert anyone. No longer functioning as a priest, he is immediately pulled into conflicts between Horace Perrault, an apparently sociopathic oil company geologist, and indigenous tribesmen who twice save Jerod's life. Rebel guerrillas, who also are intimately...