Mike Hunter's colorful life takes him from a troubled upbringing to his final adventure in the gold souk of Dubai. After coming off worst in a confrontation with his alcoholic father who beats his mother and abuses his mother Mike escapes into the Army. After a stint in the SAS and a tour in Vietnam, Mike leaves the army, returns and finds work in the early, torrid days of Dubai in the 1980's. With his marriage in trouble he has a further romantic disappointment with a woman in Dubai. She runs from Mike in fear of what her aggressive Arab ex-husband will do. Feeling lonely in a foreign land...