Beginning in Senegal in West Africa, Reza journeys through increasingly dangerous terrain across Mali and Burkina Faso, an active battleground with jihadist links to Al-Qaida.

In Niger, he gets under the skin of human trafficking and joins a convoy of illegal migrants, sharing part of their journey to Europe. He meets an array of extraordinary characters and narrowly escapes a dangerous encounter with human smugglers.

Reza enters to Chad, an active war zone and the front line of battle with Boko Haram, where climate change has played into the hands of terrorist groups. Arriving in Sudan in the midst of the revolution, Reza is arrested at the border and taken for questioning by Sudanese intelligence.

Kicked out of Darfur and arriving in Khartoum, Reza is followed by secret police all the time as he observes the bloodbath of the fight between militias and people. Finally, he travels on to Ethiopia's extraordinary landscape, where he experiences the hottest place on earth before finishing at the Red Sea in Somaliland: a country that does not exist.