Owing to failures in the electronic system, an emergency landing by a British Airways flight No.873 coincides with an attempted coup within an East African Nation and passengers aboard flight BA873 have meanwhile been allocated a hotel in the besieged territory. Once a CORB boy (one of the Children sent overseas under the Children's Reception Board set up to send children away from Britain during the world war) Roland, together with his British counterpart one of the passengers on flight BA873 take on an adventurous visit into a Pygmies territory where their end would not be safe at all. Trapped deep into the pygmies' territorial swampy forest, there is an urgency for the British nationals to elude a dangerous and an unhealthy turmoil.