The novel is divided into three parts, past, present and future. The past carries the reader to South Africa of the author’s childhood and describes the carefree life on the farm in beautiful landscape images. (For easier reading these parts have been put in italics).The fictional part is related to the possible loss of the farm Waterfalls by a dam of a reservoir, and the search for traces of destruction in the name of “progress”.The book contains many autobiographical elements.
Especially the trip she had experienced exactly as described with her late husband.The trip was like almost everything in her life full of adventure and vividly describes the life of the Turks.