| In the wee hours of a November morning in 2007, a truckload of recycledcars forces an SUV into the dark waters of Hood Canal. Thepassengers, Carson Barrus and his wife Naomi, submerge carrying allof their discontent with them. Carson frees himself from the sinkingvehicle and crawls out of the canal knowing his wife is dead. From theshadows, he bears witness to his own death before disappearing intothe darkness. He drifts into Oregon, where he is taken in by an unlikely set of alliesin Wasco County at a place called The Dalles. There he assumes anew identity and sets out in search of a child born somewhere in Oklahomafour years earlier: a child he's never seen, a boy born to his babysister, Aleta, a child she wasn't allowed to keep-and with her suicidea child who will never know his mother's touch. Carson's latent obsession over his sister's child pushes aside all logic. He's been given an unrestrained moment to do what he should havedone back when it mattered. Behind the mask of his supposed death,he proceeds to right a wrong. |
