Flore Elementaire de La France, Part 1: Redigee D'Apres Le Systeme de Linnee Modifie Par Le CL. Richard (1847)

The island lies in the vast sea, almost cut off from the modern world, inhabited by people who live by their own primitive laws. There is a boy among them who has the gift of seeing into the future, who keeps them safe from the storms that threaten their lives when they take to the sea to fish, and to whom they turn for all decisions regarding their daily lives. Then a man returns to the island where he was born, a man of evil and darkness, fleeing from the killing of a priest, and the retribution of the law. The story follows the struggle between good and evil, and has scenes of raw sexual power and murderous violence played out under the blazing heat of the sun as it moves to a terrifying finale.