In this highly original novel, the art of the prose poem is twisted into a black comedy drama about melancholy where local legends Jake and Josef Boom know all about telling a good yarn or two. Jake was once a local reporter and now sells flowers from his father's overgrown garden. Josef, once a private tutor, is lost in the telling of his own story. When Jake's girlfriend Mora goes missing, both him and his father turn over every stone to uncover the culprit in her disappearance. Aided by war veteran Holwell Brown, White Nights café owner Arielle, Dal and Charlotte Mouswald, along with shady detective Paul Brothers and the equally surreptitious accountant Morton Campbell, Jake recounts each of their lives and how everybody has become wet in the rain somehow. Even when the ashes are still burning. The story brings together accounts of comedy, childhood, heartbreak, loss, death, murder and cannibalism. And like all good tales, it is at the end where our story begins.