A tale inspired by the life of a top-level undercover spy for the CIA and Italian intelligence services finds Agent Kasper investigating a money-printing operation in North Korea, only to be betrayed by his two governments and subjected to a brutal incarceration. Agent Kasper is investigating a money-printing operation in North Korea, only to be betrayed by his two governments. While scrappy lawyer Barbara Belli works for his release in Rome, Kasper is a prisoner in the Cambodian hinterlands-- wasted by torture, malnutrition, and psychotropic drugs. He's really pissed off the wrong people this time ...