Now, suddenly, he is also a widower. Leaving his son behind, he flies back to Vietnam for the first time in 50 years, escaping to the landscape of a place he once knew so well. He takes the reader on a journey through history, unravelling the horrors of the war and the breakdown of his marriage. Retracing his past through his childhood in Yorkshire, his life in London in the 1960s and his stagnant relationship with his wife and son, this is a poignant story of life shaped by trauma and love.