The tale is about Oceano, a young canon of the tenth century who is forced to leave Paris an the “Francia” after being involved in a murder. Following the advice of an old Irish monk, he decides to join the westernmost point of Europe, the Skellig Michæl Island – skelig Mhichil in those pages – where there is a monastery into which he hopes to be admitted. His idea is to offer his soul a place of peace. Unfortunately, there is no longer any peace in Skellig. The abbot denied all faith. The monks neither pray nor sing any more, they have lost their rule and any friendship has gone. One of them has been killed by a member of the community…