Description

In Morocco in March Jack Miles joins the Peace Corps and ends up in Morocco after a painful love affair that ends in a tragedy for which he feels responsible. In a bleak Saharan town his association with Omar Abass, a Moroccan soldier, leads him into dissipation and brutality. Accused of being an accomplice in the murder of a young girl, another tragedy he has failed to prevent, Jack embarks on a dark descent into loneliness and damnation that embroils him in the criminal underworld of a coastal town and takes him to an isolated Middle Atlas village where he falls in love with Selema, a Berber woman who tries to convince him that he has redeemed himself for his sins. There he hopes to hide from a past that will not let him go. In a world of corruption and violent civil unrest, Jack undergoes an ordeal that threatens his soul.