Carmen Delatour, a French diplomat's daughter, travels half-way around the world, to the American Southwest, to uncover the sources of a dream that has haunted her since childhood, of a parallel existence within a time-haunted realm called Evening Land. An enigmatic half-native American, who calls himself Ronan Kotoro, aids Delatour in her journey to the heart of her soul, in her quest to overcome the riddles of her existence.