How important it is sometimes to be in the right place at the right time! Unemployed sailor John Fowler, who was engaged in shady dealings, fleeing police persecution, decided to hide his ends in water and enlisted in the French Foreign Legion. At that moment, he could not even imagine that he was making the most successful step in his life. After all, hard service in the Foreign Legion and the dangerous expedition awaiting him into the impenetrable jungles of Equatorial Africa left little chance of even simple survival. There was no need to dream about luck at all. And then fate unexpectedly smiled on the fugitive...