Jason Hughes is a British tourist who takes a trip to Gambia, a small coastal country of West Africa. He is lured to a remote village where he finds himself in unusual captivity and discovers that he is neither the first, nor alone. He befriends an American who is desperate to escape and he falls in love with a strange woman, in a place where everyone seems to be acting out their part in a real life drama, where the lines between real and false, and truth and lies are blurred. Jason must find a way out of the complications which he finds himself without losing his life and what he holds dearest. But who can he trust?