As the Revolution rages in France, a seafarer named Peyrol, a master-gunner in the French republican navy, pirate, and for pretty much fifty years “rover from the outer seas,” involves the end of an eternity lived in the seas and seeks refuge in a remote control farmhouse around the French Riviera. As he efforts to settle into a peaceful existence, Peyrol challenges to redefine himself and results to the ocean for one final voyage.

The Rover may be the last complete novel written by Joseph Conrad, and was published in 1923 shortly before his death. Conrad positioned on the title page an epigraph extracted from Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene:

Rest after toyle, interface after stormie seas,Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please

This also became Conrad’s epitaph.