A travel writers' tour of Central America in 1993 to explore ecotourism destinations: beautiful tropical places, great food, lovely people. What could go wrong with that? Unsuspecting, these junketing journalists are caught up in the multi-layered mess of Cold War aftershocks, the expanding drug trade and the genocide waged on the indigenous. Along the road, they get tastes of what that means in real people's lives, but when they drop into the Darien...