A triangle of land in dry, famine-ridden Africa grows lush crops and the people who live there are free of dreaded diseases that decimating the population. A bush pilot, missionary nurse, journalist and corporate farm worker, each with his or her own needs, all seek the answer to the existence of this magic region. The African woman who holds the key would gladly exchange it to meet her own needs. The tension mounts as greed propels the characters toward a surprising discovery.

Nat Sharpe's need for a liver transplant drives his belief that casulaties in a civil war would be the perfect potential source of donors. Battling for his life and the lives of others, he is soon faced with ethical and moral questions as well as angry virologists who will go to great lengths to halt the project. In the end, a mission to save lives may cost lives as his quest causes one of his main allies to choose between the woman he loves and a dying man.