This is a true story. In the spring of '69, three young boys in their early twenties take off in their cars from their home in Montreal and head to Berkeley, California. After months of living in the heart of the hippie scene and the peace-and-love movement, two of the boys, Jack and Joe, decide to travel to the Middle East and Europe. While visiting the Old City of Jerusalem in Israel, they make some naive and reckless decisions that could of ruined their lives forever. They purchased a kilo of hashish, on a whim, with no thought to the horrible consequences if they were caught. This story details all the trials and tribulations of smuggling the hashish through seventeen borders, hence the name of the book. It is just amazing how they do it!