Bella and Brogan's journey takes not the few weeks planned, but incarceration and intimidation, the fears, suffering and trepidation that only a hijack visits on one.
At the end of World War 2, US forces hold Indo-China until the French return, ensuring Ho Chi Minh cannot take it down the communist path. Yet the French fail miserably in preventing the swell of resistance; it smoulders until bursting into bloody conflagration with Bella and Brogan innocent pawns in this cauldron of political intrigue.
The 'catch-twenty-two' of their situation demands they become embroiled in guerrilla warfare or face the cutting of their own throats for even knowing the truths behind the hijack.