A monastery, situated in the Free State, stages an annual Passion Play, pinning all their hopes of survival on it. But JC van Schouwenburg, who plays the lead role, has disappeared. Dapper de Wet, rose cultivator, gourmand and experienced slacker, is sent to find out what is going on. But the Mother Superior is evasive, the staff unhelpful, and Brother P, the shadowy leader of the monastery, is entirely inaccessible.

An imaginative, quirky novel that will sweep the reader away to another world.