Khadija is a teenage girl from a poor background; fate pushes her into a world where money, HIV and survival are inextricably intertwined. Moses is a powerful but superstitious politician who seeks council from a mysterious witchdoctor; he is on the verge of becoming the countrys third president as he locks horns with the West. Graham Fitzgerald is an IMF official who suspects that Malawi could be sitting on vast oil reserves; he is tasked with a mission that will transform this small African country. Fernando is an ex-guerrilla Renamo fighter, a mysterious figure who uses dark arts of war with devastating results and feels he has a duty to protect the prostitutes. Their lives and those of many more are on a collision course with devastating consequences in a story about power, marital infidelities, greed, poverty, love, betrayal, life and death in the aftermath of Malawis first multiparty general elections.