A young American has joined the guerillas in the jungles of southern Colombia. Hoggard, a British journalist, hunts him down to get his story. Why has he joined up? Does he really understand what he's doing?
The married but estranged Hoggard's affair with a beautiful Colombian girl, the attempt to shoot video of the publicity-shy guerilla youth and the world-weary journalist's relationships with the rebel leaders and his colleagues gradually draw a picture of two lives - the young American's and the journalist's - on the edge of disaster in a highly volatile environment.