Deciding to help a friend taken hostage by unknown people, Thobela Mpayipeli, a former militant and now a law-abiding citizen, finds himself drawn into a dangerous and dark game, the meaning of which he does not understand. Only one thing is clear to him: he is being hunted by the special services, the police and the army, and in order to stay alive and get even with the past forever, he must do the impossible - win the unequal battle imposed on him... The tragedy discussed in this novel occurs through two years after the events described in another novel, Death at Dawn. Only the main and secondary characters have switched places this time.