When Paul Morgan, a much-divorced recluse, meets a blonde and sensual fourteen-year-old girl on a deserted beach, he does not suspect that the meeting will lead him into a dark world of sexual conflict. Lost on his Plain of darkness, Paul relives the events that lead him to consider suicide. The action moves from the Atlantic seacoast of southern Africa to the wilderness of central Africa where Paul is forced to confront the unresolved problems of his past. Here he finds at last a black guide who will lead him out of danger and free him from bondage to the women he loved.