James Cartwright a British businessman posted missing for months is discovered alone, disorientated and confused living in a simple apartment in a run down part of Udon Thani in the Northeast of Thailand. A case for celebration perhaps... it should be. The snag is the Police find him when they respond to the death of a young woman who has just plunged six floors from his apartment window. Is it an accident, suicide or murder? This is the question that the Police want answered... but James has no answers, none at all, he has lost his tongue or his mind, for he thinks he's five hundred and sixty kilometers away in a five star hotel in Bangkok.... The neighbours though speak of a terrible fight, of shouting, screaming and cursing in Thai and English just before the sudden silence... then the sickening thud.