Jacobine Dijkman is internet detective in Nijmegen, a team which is led by Rolf Detering. In 2005 she interviews Goos de Graaf, a student who reports to have met the murderer of his mother. A crime which took place at a campingsite when he was four years old, present under the awning of the tent in which his mother lost her life. Jacobine takes his statement serious after she studied research in the 'US' at what age a minor can remember a violent event. Rolf doesn't want to contradict her, ...

The story of this literary thriller is set against the background of the emigration of a Dutch couple in the 1960s. They set off for the other side of the world virtually unprepared, knowing little about life in Australia. Their first stop is the Bonegilla migrant camp, where they only stay a few weeks. After leaving the camp, they try to make a good life for themselves in Port Augusta by working hard. They do well financially, but their marriage is not happy and after a few years they return...