When his mother contracts a potentially fatal illness requiring expensive treatment, Jim leaves for the island of Nova Madeira, her Indian Ocean childhood home, to find the fortune his grandfather buried in the mountains. He falls for the dynamic, feisty and cheeky pro-independence activist and martial artist, Mia Monteiro. Mia's political views cost her her job, just as as a rebellion sweeps the island. On the eve of the island's independence, Jim...