This novel is about two young punks travelling in South America in 1978. Their views on money, freedom, travelling, the getting away from reality, music, poetry, youth movements, hippies, punks and drugs. Its what some kids of their age do with their lives, before they get married, mortgaged and chained. Some of them don't make it that far.
This story is about faith, ignorance, denial and revenge. In parts it is about unity, common purpose, and triumphalism. However, it is also about sadistic nature, power gone wrong, and retribution. For this kind of story is for an audience obsessed with religious wrong-doing, its hypocrisy and its secrets. If there is a moral, then it must be that the reader following the actions of our heroine understand why she is compelled to commit the same acts that have been perpetrated on her. Only after such deeds are done, when the meaning of compassion is fully understood, can our heroine change the course of her life and of those that she leads.