Prologue -- The end at the beginning -- I. Season of the day moon -- 1. Portrait of a sandal -- 2. Feelers -- 3. Leaps in the dark -- II. The sea round -- 4. A place to sleep by day -- 5. Spring tide, neap tide, ebb tide, flood -- 6. Ka Tata Te Po -- III. The lightning struck tower -- 7. Mirrortalk -- 8. Nightfall -- 9. Candles in the wind -- IV. Feldapart Sinews, breaken bones -- 10. The Kaumatua and the broken man -- 11. The boy by his own -- 12. The woman at the wellspring of death -- Epilogue -- Moonwater picking -- Translation of Maori words and phrases.
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Kerewin, a part-Maori painter living in self-exile, is drawn out of her isolation by a mute boy who is cast up on a beach, the only survivor of a shipwreck.