When he died, Duncan Campbell Scott was known as a first-rate poet and civil servant. Today, because of his work in the Department of Indian Affairs, he's considered one of history's worst Canadians. When word of this reaches Scott's ghost, he returns to the land of the living, asking poet and journalist Mark Abley to clear his name. In this book of imaginative non-fiction, Abley evokes a man who wrote vibrant poems about Indigenous people while instituting policies that destroyed their culture.