Set in a landscape stripped bare by civil war, two independents forge analliance of convenience in order to buy their way into the land of the free, the one safe haven in an otherwise lawless landscape. Hiding from marauding armies, they travel the country, gathering great art treasuresfrom crumbling museums. But with the border to freedom in sight, they'r e captured by forces from the new coalition government. They can still buy their freedom - if they agree to do one little job for the new government.
