In desperate search of a place to safely grow their miracle cure for viruses called Cannastar, Alex and Cyd shipwreck off the west coast of Africa and wash ashore in the drug and war-torn nation of Gineau-Bissau. Fleeing for their lives, they arrive in Senegal where they become involved in the country’s real-life child-slavery problem and barely avoid execution.

They find refuge in Israel where they meet the inventor of the Organ Grinder, a 3-D printer that replaces damaged organs without the need for surgery. The experimental research is funded by a ruthless billionaire with a violent and secret past who becomes Cyd and Alex’s investor in a vast new Cannastar plantation.

While living in Israel, Cyd is badly wounded in a rocket attack. Her only chance of survival is the Organ Grinder — which has never tested on a human being. Meanwhile, Alex is taken hostage by terrorists and spends weeks in fear not knowing if Cyd is alive or dead.