John Opie, a young artist, falls under suspicion when a teen-age boy he has been using as a model disappears. But this is only the start of a story which involves him in murder and suspense as he and his girl-field Penny discover that young Jonny has been kidnapped by a world-wife paedophile ring run by a plump, amoral Englishman. They follow the trail to Athens, then to a remote village in the Peloponnese and the headquarters of the organisation. Opie, innocent of any knowledge of guns or violence, is captured and faces a highly unpleasant death as a participant in a snuff movie. The wild and still relatively unknown countryside of the Mani makes a wild background to an unusual story.