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It's 1972. When hot-headed, impetuous Jack Muir gets off the ship in Durban, he fails to get back on. Instead, he sails into misadventure, fleeing the stifling town of Genoralup to try to lose himself in South Africa at the height of apartheid. But the past has a way of catching up with you, and soon Jack is running again, this time to a kibbutz in Israel. In the course of a lifetime, Jack will travel far, always caught between fleeing from and seeking those things he needs: a mother's precious gift, a lover in a time of war, the loss of a child, a kind and steady woman. And, across time and across continents, old Jack Muir will remember those who helped him become a decent man, a better father and a friend. Third book in a loose trilogy about Jack Muir, following from BOY ON A WIRE and TO THE HIGHLANDS. Jack Muir is a restless adventurer, an idealist and dreamer. Escaping his stifling country town, he jumps ship to hitchhike South Africa at the height of apartheid and hate, then flees to a kibbutz in Israel where he finds love in a time of war. It is the unexpected gift of two mothers that will change the course of his life - and it is the pilgrimage old Jack makes that allows him to reunite with his kibbutznik brothers and to understand the true meaning of love at journey's end In 1972, wanderer Jack Muir travels from South Africa to Israel to Australia seeking fulfillment, love, friendship, and direction as me makes choices about his life and learns what kind of man he wants to be