Return Ticket

In 1972 when hot-headed, impetuous Jack Muir flees the stifling town of Genoralup and gets off a ship in Durban, South Africa, he fails to get back on in Cape Town and gets messed up with drug dealers and anti-apartheid activists. Drugs and beatings and a keen sense that he is being stalked force him to flee again, this time to a kibbutz in Israel, where he finds love, war, and deep friendships. In the course of a lifetime, Jack will travel far, always caught between fleeing from and seeking those things he needs: a mother’s precious gift, a lover in a time of war, the loss of a child and a kind and steady woman. Across time and across continents, old Jack Muir remembers those who helped him become a decent man, a better father and a friend.