Set in the 1930's, Nigeria, West Africa and Los Angeles, California, three men's fate converge to tell a dramatic tale of a search for discovery and an act of betrayal. In the crumpled aged pages of a journal discovered by a policeman from his prisoner, is the journey of an anthropologist and engineer whose attempt to assist a small village results in immeasurable consequences. Western presumptions collide with indigenous wisdom as these men learn that the delicate balance between life and death can lie within the edges of one tiny oasis.