Josh, self-professed derro and ex-communist, lives in a hut on the edge of
the Showground in Dry Torrent, a town whose affluence dried up when the
river did. He shares his days with Blue, a Vietnam veteran whose car broke
down at that spot and saw no reason to keep moving. When Vonnie, a young
Aboriginal woman fleeing the city, her abusive pimp and a drug habit arrives,
the quiet lives of Josh and Blue are changed forever. The fate of these three
unlikely friends is written with compassion and humour.
