Monika lives a quiet life in her beloved London, until a lover turns murderous. Two warriors from the Wuduwa, an ancient tribe of tiny hominids that live on an island in the Thames Estuary, come to her assistance. A German journalist and an itinerant French anarchist on a quixotic mission to save humanity from capitalism, blunder in to her life also intent on rescuing her. A mysterious inhabitant of the internet and an elderly pirate with a score to settle inflame an already volatile situation. This changes everything.