A novel full of love, emotion and beauty, about the power of the past and the importance of always living life as an adventure. Isla is neurotic, controlling and drags some other childhood trauma. He lives with his uncles in Australia and has never left there. After a life of comfort, he decides to travel to Africa to reunite with his father, who runs a gorilla orphanage. It was there too, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, that her mother disappeared when she was just a baby. Isla will find herself in the middle of the jungle after an accident and there she will not only run into rebels, guerrillas, poachers and an unfathomable nature, but also eroticism and a wild love story. Along the journey, he will rediscover his past and an enigma will be revealed that will change his life forever.
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