Shan Tao Yun is an exiled Chinese national, a former Beijing Investigator, on parole from the Tibetan gulag to which he had been consigned as punishment. During a trip he comes upon an accident when suddenly two people are shot in an approaching car. One is the Chinese minister of tourism and the other a blond westerner. The blond dies in his arms but when Shan tries to report the death he is told she did not die. As he looks for the killer he discovers that the fate of his son is bound up in his search.
