The Unknown Digger is a famous WWI poet, but for decades, his identity
has remained a mystery. Enter Matthew Denton--a PhD student at
University College, London--who believes the unknown digger to be fact
one of Australia's greatest war heroes: Lieutenant Alan Lewis VC of the
10th Light Horse. As the story of Lieutenant Lewis, fighting his way
across Sinai, Palestine, Jordan, and Syria unfolds, the question of what
makes him a poet, a lover, and a hero becomes a troubled one. Meanwhile,
in the footnotes, scholar Matt Denton is fighting his own battles with
romance and with academia as he attempts to rewrite literary history.