Haunted by the loss of his long time friend and travel companion Mikhail, Aleksei, Belarussian, reaches Paris. He enlists in the French Foreign Legion, a highly selective military corp that allows any foreigner, even undocumented, to be granted a French passport. In the Niger Delta, Jomo fights against oil companies that threaten the survival of his village. His sister Udoka, meanwhile, dreams of escaping, knowing that all is already lost here.
