Kiwi Thriller. Troubled by writer's block, and feeling alienated from the world, Stanley approaches his agent Tom Darby (Marshall Napier - The Waterhorse, City Homicide, McLeod's Daughters, Blue Heelers ) with the possibility of quitting in the middle of his current novel. Worried that the publishers would sue, and that Stanley's reputation would be ruined, Tom sends him home to New Zealand on a tramping trip to clear his mind.

When he wakes up on the first morning to find a fellow traveller dead, Stanley soon finds himself caught up in a real life scenario that is far too reminiscent of one of his own plot lines - with blood on his hands Merse is faced with the very real possibility that this story may in fact be reality, in his desperation for a story has he in fact crossed the line from fiction to fact?