The ambitious business lawyer and Afro-German MICHAEL (37) has an accident while surfing during his family vacation on Lanzarote and is pulled out into the open sea. When he is rescued by an African refugee boat, he begins an odyssey on the routes of African refugees. Without his passport, he is no longer a German, but only one among many illegals. Together with his biggest adversary on board, the Congolese helmsman KINGSLEY (32), he is kidnapped by a Bedouin smuggling gang and falls into the grip of the largest human trafficking network in the world. The will to survive makes the initial enemies Michael and Kingsley become friends and finally makes them able to do anything to free themselves from the hands of the kidnappers.