Rich or poor, five people, seemingly very different, find their lives in the cap
ital connected in undreamed-of ways. There is Job, the illegal mini-cab driver w
hose wife in Zimbabwe no longer answers his letters; Ian, the idealistic supply
teacher in exile from South Africa; Katie from New York, jilted and miserable as
a dogsbody at a political magazine, and fifteen-year-old Anna, trafficked into
sexual slavery. Polly Noble, an overworked human rights lawyer, knows better tha
n most how easy it is to fall through the cracks into the abyss.
