A series of curious events waylay four strangers in West Africa who are divided by seventy years but are somehow inextricably linked. A madcap chase through today's urban jungle in search of a priceless trophy gives way to a love story set in a mysteriously magical plantation in the real jungle of World War 2. As Upton Magna reads the 1940 diary of the dashing engineer Hercule, he notices eerie similarities between...