While revealing the poet's pet obsession - the comforts and dangers of community - this poetry collection covers multiple continents and shades of uncertainty. As the narrative roves across a range of territories, including embassies, subdivisions, cottages, islands, and compounds both real and imagined, it explores the concept of borders: how they materialise in the personal and the political spheres, and how they relate to physical and psychological security. The poems demonstrate how the poetic self can move, sometimes queasily and sometimes bombastically, through such boundaries.