Jaco Diehl, a writer, lives in Hermanus. He becomes witness to an attempted murder of his neighbour, and gradually he is implicated in other violent episodes: first in Hermanus, then Somerset-West and also Bellville. His life is disintegrating, and he doesn't seem to care. Who is responsible for these murders, and what is the truth? Or perhaps the truth is also transformed into fiction, and like the main character, is not to be trusted.