Ageing chancer escapes his miserable grey council estate life & hypochondriac wife to embark on a wild African adventure. With a young Kenyan family to support a new career as a drug smuggler beckons - ballsy, with a razor sharp instinct - he's a natural until he's caught with 3lb of cannabis at Nairobi Airport. Sentenced to a notorious African prison he battles to survive squalid conditions and a brutal corrupt regime unaware his greatest challenge waits for him in England.