Johnny Duggan joined a bank in the newly independent country of Zambia, and soon found that life in Africa was quite different to that back in England. He soon found himself embroiled in a sequence of events that followed him up to the desolate Northern Province in Zambia where life took on a quicker pace than that in England. Johnny became drawn into what turned out to be a wide-spread conspiracy which one of Johnny's bank colleagues had to be brought into. Greed, however, took the better of his colleague and he was forced to take flight from Zambia with unfortunate consequences. Johnny finally returned to England and the lacklustre life from which he had earlier escaped.