Morgan Pålsson is a disaster of a TV journalist and the management has sent him to the small African country of Matobo to report from the first free elections together with his trusted cameraman Robert. Things turn ugly when insurgents make a coup d'etat but Pålsson is in the world spotlight as the only Western journalist reporting. However, he soon finds himself in competition with his fiercest rival, the famous Norwegian war correspondent Åsne Seierland.