sentences:  As Bim matures and becomes older, he moves from crime to crime, until involved by implication in a murder he flees back to his home place, the sugar cane belt in Caroni.Approaching one of his father's old friends, he is able to take revenge on his father's killers and rise to prominence as a trade union representative for the Indian sugar-cane workers.During this time, tension is rife in the country because the previous colonial regime is rumoured to be coming to an end.