Clare Rainbow-Dashell, the only child of delightfully eccentric, wealthy
hippies, has just taken a hiatus from her career as an acclaimed
wildlife photographer and returned to California to pursue her academic
dreams when a disastrous affair with a professor catapults her to
another continent: Africa. There, she immerses herself in well-paid
commercial work for a luxury safari lodge as she seeks to regain her
emotional and financial self-reliance. All this, however, is complicated
by her relationship with her charismatic, imperious employer and her
undeniable attraction to a leading black rhino specialist--two men who
are at war over both environmental politics and Clare herself.
Set against the formidable backdrop of the Namib Desert, Rhino Dreams
dramatizes the crisis of endangered species preservation and the horrors
of poaching, interweaving this very real ecological darkness with the
internal and external battles of three characters driven by fierce
passions and divided notions of duty, ambition, and desire. It is a
sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant ride--and, in the end, a
testimony to how tenuous and precious both life and love can be.