Dara, a documentary filmmaker, is at the top of her game. She's covered Bosnian women, neo-Nazis, and post-Katrina New Orleans (for which she won an Oscar). Now she's looking for a bigger challenge. So she and her right-hand-man-a six-foot-six, seventy-two-year-old African-American-head to Djibouti, Africa, to tackle modern-day pirates. But once they start filming, they find a whole lot more than they bargained for. They quickly learn that almost nobody in Djibouti is what he seems. A whole mob of colorful characters patrols the surrounding seas. But then there's the recently hijacked liquid natural gas tanker: just the thing an aspiring terrorist is looking for to blow up something big. What Dara and Xavier don't know, though, is who's going to be the one to get the prize and what they're going to do for it.