After the disastrous encounter at the end of Inward, Max and Trudie wake from unconsciousness, to a life of almost incomprehensible strangeness. As the days and weeks unfold, as Trudie's seeing is probed and studied, and they begin to come to terms with an advanced society which has survived from the past, they are caught in a power struggle between the state and the biotechnology company which ‘discovered’ them. What this company seeks from them will eventually drive them back to the kinder cruelty of the forest, to an eventual fate written with inevitability in the trauma of Trudie’s past, in a final twist which even Max’s love for her is unable to undo.
"Even better than The Knowing in its quality of writing and its imaginative yet plausible story line. There is a sensitivity in the descriptions of the characters that makes them feel real and familiar." - from Amazon.co.uk review.