Jens, a German teaching German language and European Studies at a private college in the Philippines, actually likes his life with his girlfriend, his house and his job on the other side of the globe. However, when friends are arrested at the airport with drugs in the luggage, he finds himself dragged into the interior workings of the countries much more than he ever desired. In his efforts to get his friends out of prison he has to face local powers he didn't even knew about, and more than once he is reminded that in the Philippine language the name of the town Kapalaran, where the story is centered, means FATE...