Marco, a young Roman reporter, travels to Zaire to carry out a report commissioned by an important naturalistic magazine, but when he arrives in Africa he comes across an illicit drug trafficking.

A luxury hotel in Virunga National Park, Zaire. The clientele, pampered by the staff, discovers with delight landscapes and indigenous customs. But paradise stops at the borders of the park. Not far from there live refugees from neighboring states, crammed into camps, plagued by misery. Revolted, Marco, an Italian photographer, is determined to put an end to the scandal. He befriends a seven-year-old girl, survivor of a massacre.