Gholamabbas lives in a house with his father and his old cook. The father is busy with his own small business, and the child is obsessed with the old man's stories, which he listens to at night after reading the Qur'an.
Following Tung's death in a mysterious plane crash, a police investigator replaces him to investigate the shady dealings of a gang of criminals led by Feng Wei, cousin of the dead.
Allied to a four-year Daily Mirror campaign by John Pilger that helped achieve compensation for many of the forgotten and mostly working class victims of the notorious drug prescribed to women during pregnancy.