In the remote sands of the Moroccan desert, a rifle shot rings
out–detonating a chain of events that will link an American tourist
couple’s frantic struggle to survive, two Moroccan boys involved in
an accidental crime, a nanny illegally crossing into Mexico with two
American children and a Japanese teen rebel whose father is sought by
the police in Tokyo. Separated by clashing cultures and sprawling
distances, each of these four disparate groups of people are
nevertheless hurtling towards a shared destiny of isolation and grief.
In the course of just a few days, they will each face the dizzying
sensation of becoming profoundly lost–lost in the desert, lost to the
world, lost to themselves–as they are pushed to the farthest edges of
confusion and fear as well as to the very depths of connection and love.