Malcolm Kidd's first novel is a fictionalized account of an extended polo season beginning in 1989 and details the Irish polo team's exploits in Pakistan and one player's search for a lost and vulnerable friend - his own lifelong passion for the sport having intensified following death divorce and moving house/country all within six weeks. Polo had helped kindle many dynamic relationships and served as a keel at a time of uncertain swell. Free to travel with polo his passport he discovers sexual liberalism and duplicity where he least expects it and tragedy once more.