About the book: 1982 / In the first half of the 20th century, only four white people lived in Polynesia on the Elas Islands: a resident of the Dutch East India Company, Mynheer Gruyter, a missionary and the doctor Reverend Jones with his sister and the brawler, parasite and womanizer Red Ted, sent by his relatives from Europe. Closed in their own circle, whites willy-nilly take part in each other’s destinies... and not always in the way they wanted or expected. Sometimes it's for the better.