The Mohawk Pete Dellon gives the finishing touch. Capping the highest tower in the word, he feelsl the urge to be the first to take the dizziest leap. His courageous act is rewarded by his definitive dismissal from his job. This Ariadne's thread connects the plot focsing on a gallery of finely etched characters.

The novel is a paean to tolerance, understanding, and Canadian multiculturalism as a work-in-progress, an ideal unlikely to come to realization anywhere else in the world.