Island Nights' Entertainments The Beach of Falesa Chapter Two - The Ban

In which a newcomer to a South Sea village finds himself shunned and watched by the natives with an inscrutable, sombre silence that speaks of superstition and old grudges, while the tangled loyalties and rivalries of settlers and islanders unfold with a slow, heavy suspense. Amidst this alien scene, a tender and troubled intimacy grows between man and wife, as whispers of jealousies and past wrongs temper their fragile peace and hint at deeper mysteries.