We next meet Ren, a middle-aged woman who has taken refuge in mountains after a military coup. It is an allegorical beginning for this book that is much about how human and environmental violence and cruelty begets violence and cruelty, and how this chain may be broken. Under the watch of this guardian angel her farm thrives, drawing the ire and jealousy of neighbours, one of whom breaks this precious pact and sends the region (and himself) back into ruin. An unnamed farmer in a a drought-stricken unnamed country survives a flood, seemingly due to the favour of the rain heron, a fantastical transparent creature that trails precipitation from its wings.
The Rain Heron, the second novel of Tasmanian writer Robbie Arnott, begins with a sort-of prologue, entitled Part 0, about the titular bird.
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