Bharat is a solemn young Asian professor of English who reluctantly migrates to Australia with his wife, Navaranjini. As guides to their new life they take with them a parcel of prejudices - and the journal of Bharat's grandfather, an aristocratic liberal who sailed from Colombo to Queensland in 1882.
Through a vivid montage of journal extracts, dramatic monologues, letters and anecdotes, a richly comic, incisive and ultimately challenging picture of Australia is revealed that is full of deceptively innocent ironies, exploring at the same time the paradox of a changing world scene and the stories of those who "let go."
