Dimensions
154 x 230 x 27mm
In 1946 a German woman and her two young sons arrive in Venezuela to begin a new life. Helga will marry her brother-in-law, a doctor, and the boys, Erich and Zeppi, will accept him as their stepfather. Together the family fly out to a distant jungle outpost where Klaus is to be the new medical officer, but en route their plane flies into a fierce tropical storm and crashes into a river in a remote region of Amazonas.
They are rescued by the Yayomi, a tribe of stone-age Indians, and welcomed into their way of life, having been mistaken for land-bound incarnations of freshwater dolphins. They are not alone among the natives: Gerhard Wentzler is an anthropologist who has been studying the tribe for years, and he enables them to make the adjustment to a different kind of existence.
At first all goes well, the boys in particular adapting readily to Yayomi ways, but slowly and painfully Erich begins to realise that Klaus is not the noble figure he thought he was.
And that's when things go wrong...
