Meet Remy LeBeau., an expatriate history teacher living comfortably in central China, carefree and wholly unknowing of what will come. As a burgeoning relationship develops with a coworker in Nanchang, China, an initial curiosity of the mysterious beauty Monica Hu leads him into the increasingly deeper waters where officials of the Chinese Communist Party and criminal syndicates swim freely. With dogged dedication, he presses onward seeking answers to questions more safely left undisturbed.