Luke is studying Macbeth at school and is drawn into the world of the real Macbeth and his son Lulach. Luke has his own problems ( his step father is a famous TV journalist and when he sat for a scholarship at a prestigious Sydney school he realizes he has already seen the exam! Then there’s the development of a golf course that will take all the water from the farms around as well as his love for his neighbor). But Lulach’s problems are life and death (his real father is burned alive, his stepfather has to fight battles , he is promised to marry someone he has never seen when he is 6 years old – there are wars, people starve & people die.) Luke is upset because the Macbeth in his dreams is brave, proud and strong and not the villain Shakespeare made him out to be!p.132-136Lulach sails to Thorfinn’s land to meeet his bride Thora and comes across a scene of devestation