1935. The threshold of the Second World War. The Italian army invades Ethiopia. What can impoverished Africans oppose to the superbly equipped Europeans? They have neither modern weapons nor experience in combat... Realizing this, the Emperor of Ethiopia offers two dashing mercenaries - the American Jake Barton and the Englishman Gareth Swales - to deliver four armored cars to his country. He pays in gold - in the literal sense of the word. Such offers are expensive. But desperate adventurers can’t even imagine what they and their fellow traveler, a charming journalist, face on a risky trip across Africa...