A journalist is looking into the dictatorship of a country cut off from the rest of the world. There, he discoveres a violent society in decline, ravaged by a mysterious disease.

In the capital of a merciless dictatorship, a sudden attack eliminates a cohort of prisoners condemned to organ donorship. For in this country, penal policy kills two birds with one stone: undesirable elements are sacrificed to benefit elite citizens awaiting transplants. Soon the leader of the ruling junta suspects a plot. Who could be behind it? His Machiavellian Minister of Health? His rival dauphins? To this country cut off from the rest of the world, where a terrible epidemic besieges young women in particular, comes a foreign journalist looking to tell a story every paper will want to hear. But in such an appalling land, how can he ensure his reportage will be free from the manipulations of hidden interests?