An American man, divorced from his wife, distraught with the stinging realization of a total estrangement from his son, follows an unusual impulse. He sets off to the heart of war-torn southern Sudan with the singular idea that, holed up in a bunker with a machine gun, he can save the innocent villagers of the region from the genocidal death riders, the Murahaleen. But for a white collar New Englander, in hiding from his own darkness, lost in Sudan and requiring the assistance of a local village woman to keep himself alive, saving others from dark mercenary forces amidst the harsh climate of equatorial Africa may prove even more challenging than he ever could have imagined.
