The desert. Cold nights. Blistering hot days. Wide sky, silence, solitude. The next town is a two-day jeep ride or two-week walk away.

A North American scientist, Gabriel, has spent an extremely long time alone researching desert locusts. He has converted a nearby cave into a laboratory. His habits and personality have adapted to the surroundings. He finds something unexpectedly - a special rare insect. His princess. Just as he is on the verge of capturing her, a stranger appears. Also a scientist, he claims - Marc, from Cambridge University.

A threat? An enigma? The two dance a dance of mistrust and evasion around one another, until accidentally a hitherto untapped source of power is released into the world. It is violent and elemental – a swarm of almost surreal dimensions which nearly destroys them both.

In the aftermath, both men are forced to reevaluate everything they thought they knew about the world and themselves.

Gabriel, legs broken, is left in the cave while Marc heads out to walk through the desert.

Once faced with a radical shift in how they perceive the world and their place in it, how do they continue to live?

What choices do they make?