A yarn of friendship and of human endeavour When Guy Edwardes returns from a single-handed yachting voyage to the Arctic he is a changed man. Then tragedy strikes, provoking his long-time partner Karen and a friend, Nick Allan, to find out what had happened to him 'up there'. Through their attempt to piece together a chain of events and make sense of Edwardes' conduct, what they eventually discover is the story of a man's soul stripped bare.