The Heat of Betrayal

Travel Guide

I was on a plane. A plane that had just flown all night across the Atlantic. A plane bound for a corner of North Africa , a country which, when viewed cartographically, look like a skullcap abreast a continent.

A reluctant Robin starts the story with a rather unique impression of the country which she has been rather reluctant to travel to, but on the insistence of her husband Paul, she has come.

She wants their marriage to work. It’s only been three years but the world –  their world  – is not a happy place.

It was fate that had brought us to Casablanca

Casablanca

Controlled chaos. Robin’s feeling that they should turn around and go back although he says it was her instinct to come here. In their appartment, the sights and sounds of Casablanca envelope them in a haze of bliss at first – the morning daylight known as the blue hour for the shades of light it brings. or as paul puts it, ‘ the hour where nothing is as it seems’

What’s the different between a casbah and a souk? Mystery

The descriptions of Morocco an the souk are evocative in every sense, with the heat of the sun, the mercury at steam bath levels, and the sense of human density, this is a feast for all the senses. The burnt yellows, earth-green fabrics, the orange soil, the cobalt blue sea, the prayers in French and the prayers crying out from the minarets.

This is the harsh yet beautiful landscape Robin has to survive in once Paul disappears. Alone in the Sahara with the vastness, the ‘terrifying enormity’ laid out before her and with ‘ no protection from the fireball above’ there are some dark and dangerous times ahead.