The accidental discovery in New Mexico of a super explosive - thousand times more powerful than conventional ones - sends assistant professor Jean-Claude Delvaux into a whirlwind of travel, passion, and discovery. Delvaux meets with tragedy in Chechnya, while taking part in its liberation struggle, and emerges broken-hearted from the rubble of Grozny, swearng off violence.
Destiny strikes again when Delvaux is lured by love and loyalty around the world and into the new nexus of conflict - brutal jihad in the mountains of Afghanistan.