Gift Wagona grows up under debilitating poverty in the People's Republic of Zvevanhu, which is under the tyrannical rule of the Supreme Leader who clings onto power by hook and crook. Gift fortunately gets a bursary until he enrolls at the University of the North where meets Stella who has secrets of her own. Gift is subsequently recruited into the Intelligence Organization where he assumes the name Agent Foxtrot but he goes on not only to date two more women but to also sell state secrets to the CIA. The Supreme Leader is finally removed from power by the military junta while Agent Foxtrot is saddled with insurmountable challenges of his own.