Only when he is on board the steamer halfway to their remote destination up river in Guyana does Milton Woodsley realize that there is more to Henry Nevinson s invitation to spend time with his family in their jungle cottage. Milton an artist thinks he has been invited to do some paintings for Nevinson a rich businessman. But when the Nevinsons mention a flute player that no one else can hear Woodsley begins to glean that there is more to their stay. Told in Woodsley s skeptical selfmocking and