Landing on the Mexican coast on Good Friday, 1519, Hernan Cortes felt himself the bearer of a divine burden to conquer and convert the first advanced civilization Europeans had yet encountered in the West. For Montezuma, leader of the Mexicans, April 21, 1519 (known in their sophisticated astronomical system as 9 Wind Day) was the precise date of a dire prophesy: the return of Quetzalcoatl, a fearsome god predicted to arrive by ship, from the East, with light skin, a black beard, robed in black exactly as Cortes would. The ensuing drama is described by eminent historian Maurice Collis in a...

Gareth's parents die in a tragic car accident. Yet his investigations show that it was no accident and he discovers his father deliberately drove the car over a cliff. This leads him on a search which uncovers the mystery of his parents' lives during the war years and after. Gareth keeps a secret and he comes to realise that his parents also have secrets which they have kept. But no secret can stay locked away forever and the secrets of the past spring forward to disturb the equilibrium of Gareth's life and those around him.