The time is 1200 AD. In the Pre-Columbian Caribbean, conflict between two ethnic groups on the islands, the Caribs and the Taíno, has been ongoing for some time. On one island this conflict comes to a head and leads to an extraordinary event; the crossing of the Atlantic, west to east, following the Gulf Stream . An epic tale of an Arawak crossing to the northern isles of Europe made many years before Columbus.