From the back cover:
When Elizabeth Thiessen embarks on an expedition to study the cave murals of Baja California, Mexico, she is catapulted onto a mythical, existential journey into the unknown.  Within days of landing in the Baja, Elizabeth discovers that her daughter, Patricia-posted in Afghanistan with the Canadian armed forces-was taken hostage by the Taliban.  Elizabeth struggles with her decision to remain on assignment, her extreme anxiety over her daughter's kidnapping, and the recollections it prompts of her conflicted relationship with her father, a Holocaust survivor.