It is 1867 and young English immigrants Ethan and Amy Melville find themselves shipwrecked on the remote and desolate coast of New Zealand.
An edderly African man is found dead in the street, shot trhough the head.
Ehrenreich, The Altruistic Imagination, 60–65; Paul Lerner, Hysterical Men: War, Psychiatry, and the Politics ofTrauma in Germany, 1890–1930 (Ithaca, 2003), 24–30. Cited in Ehrenrich, The Altruistic Imagination, 73.
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