Kitty and Inge are two sisters from Amsterdam who are on holiday in Limburg. During their stay they hear about a mysterious criminal on the loose named "the black rider" on the radio. To their surprise, they encounter a man dressed in black walking around in the forest...
Crafty railroad worker Bart becomes the first Black sheriff of Rock Ridge, a frontier town about to be destroyed in order to make way for a new railroad.
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.