A very ordinary man wakes up in an African police cell. He has no idea how he got there, nor why hes there. Hes tortured for information about which he has no idea, and then hes threatened with execution. When British Consular staff ignore his pleas for help because of a trade deal, he realizes that the only person who is going to help him, is himself. Its towards the end of the 1980s and all this is happening in the middle of a very unstable Zaire that is about to descend into civil war. He knows that to survive, he must escape. This he does, but only by killing some of his guards in the process. He on foot, in the middle of nowhere and everyone wants him dead; and now he must find out why hes Zaires Public Enemy No1, if he wants to clear his name and return to a normal life.