Rick Bordeaux: volcanologist. Mt Tambora is going to blow, and Rick knows it. Can he convince the pen-pushers and the powerful to do something before disaster strikes? Richo, Sando and Franger: knockabout blokes on an end of season footy trip to Bali. Tambora's wrath will change their lives forever. Alexander Boxer: a Prime Minister with pitiful poll numbers piloting a piss-poor, dysfunctional government, looking for a way out of trouble. Their lives will intersect in Tambora's conflagration of fire and ash.