A story of love, treachery and revenge: A vivid portrayal of one man's struggle for survival on a remote South Pacific Island.
Elizabeth Argyll isolated herself on a remote South Pacific Island after a broken love affair, and finds that not a day passes without she thinks of the man who drove her there. She is old and going blind. She has a visitor. He introduces himself as a reporter working for a magazine interested in getting her story, when all the time she knows he is the man in question. She scribbles something in a diary and presses it into his hand when the time comes for him to leave...
Back in his quarters he gets a headache. The light dims. Elizabeth makes contact of some kind. Then the headache goes away and the light brightens up again. Elizabeth is dying. In the final moments he lives in her mind. They are running over the heather, her teasing, him trying to catch up. Then she slips from his grasp and closes her eyes for the last time.