The Guarani Indians of Brazil are being subjugated and slowly destroyed: their land stolen, their culture shattered, and their lives threatened by aggressive ranchers and sugar cane plantation owners.
Tiago, a fourteen-year-old Guarani boy, lives with his mother, grandfather, and aunt in two shacks nestled between the endless conformity of sugar cane fields and the wild beauty of what remains of Brazil’s rainforest. His father is alive, but consumed by alcoholism and rarely present.
Perhaps the apparent lack of a strong man in the family is what attracts Macario, the plantation foreman. Like a scavenger targeting the weakest prey, he descends on Tiago’s family in an explosion of violence. His target? Tiago’s mother.
Macario’s unspeakable actions set in motion a deadly contest of wills. On one side, a fourteen-year-old boy whose world has all but been eradicated. On the other, a powerful and possibly insane enemy. If it seems like a lopsided contest, well, the Guarani are used to such odds.
Tiago will fight for his life.
Whether or not he succeeds…that’s another matter entirely.
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