Guilt: when the party's over and lights come up...Quays is a nightclub at the far edge of Auckland's freightyards, where all kinds of human detritus finish up: drunks, junkies, criminals and derelicts. For Maria Wallis and Marcus Klein, she a promising young lawyer looking for kicks, he a budding novelist in search of inspiration, Quays is where you go to look for real life. But when Marcus wakes up in a gutted bedsit, barely remembering how, and Maria finds herself oscillating between a sexually ambiguous kleptomaniac and a twenty-stone Maori bouncer, it seems that real life is dirtier and more dangerous than they can handle...
