What do you do when you've lost your job, your wife, your home? You go looking for treasure in Africa. Oscar Hansen has it all: great job, beautiful wife, gorgeous home. But he loses everything when an innocent lie told a long time earlier snowballs into a catastrophe. Down and out, he unexpectedly makes a new friend. Mark Kross is a self-described security consultant who has recently learned of a treasure in diamonds, hidden on the African coast two centuries earlier. And he needs someone to retrieve it for him. Oscar has nothing left to lose, and plenty to gain. But is Kross really who he claims to be? And what's the origin of the treasure? There is only one way to find out.