Most of the events in Children of Light take place over several days. We get to view them as we follow the two main characters Gordon Walker and Lee Verger onto the set of a movie in production on the coast of Mexico. Gordon Walker is an actor and a writer dealing with a recent separation from his wife with alcohol and drugs. The movie in production is a period novel he himself has adapted for the screen. The star of the movie is a former lover, now married with children. She has been nominated for an Oscar but her career has never really taken off. She has had battles with demons of her own in the most literal sense and her name could well refer to the fact that she is almost always on the verge of a nervous breakdown. This is the reason her acting is so great, the manic energy and intensity with which she assumes roles she harnesses from her perpetual struggle with sanity.

Things were under control. The landscape was a bit overbright, that was all. She was not saying inappropriate things, and the only voices she heard were concealed under the wind or in the sound of the sea and she knew them from illusion and paid them no mind.

Gordon Walker decides to visit the set out of a desperate longing of some sort, part romantic part nostalgic, maybe to postpone the inevitable drying out he would have to undertake if he was to continue working.

"I feel the need to go to down to Mexico for a while. When I get back I'll be refreshed. I'll be able to work." Keochakian leaned his knife and fork on his plate. "Let me tell you something Gordon. if you show up on that set you'll be digging your own grave."

The ensuing story is a candid look at the movie industry in operation. About the characters that inhabit the industry and about the qualities that are required of them. What makes for a selective advantage in the movie industry? Who are the human casualties and are they inevitable? The prose is often descriptive enough to evoke the light and the ambience of the exotic locations in which the action transpires. The characters are painted with minimal words in a condensed language that leaves little of relevance unsaid. Children Of Light is an entertaining voyage into the film industry. Often funny and often tragic, this is a great example of the story teller's art.