Ehomba is a simple herdsman from an isolated tribe--a "catechist" in search of answers. When a lone survivor of a shipwreck pleads for the safe return of the Visioness Themaryl, who had been kidnapped by an evil sorcerer, Ehomba sets forth on a journey through a world he has never seen to rescue a woman he has never met--for the sake of a man he never knew.