Las Vegas, present day. Nigerian Olujimi “Jimi” Sonuga is a former political prisoner and internationally renowned author. By day, he heads the Institute for Literary Asylum, an organization that sponsors and shelters writers who’ve been victims of political imprisonment and torture. By night, he lives in a crypt-like room in the Luxor Las Vegas, has a girlfriend who could be his daughter, doesn’t sleep, and regularly plays blackjack at 4 a.m. Ric Ruby, a Vegas lowlife, shows up at the Institute one day, claiming to Jimi that he’s a writer (he has a blog) and has been a victim of political imprisonment and torture … by the United States of America. Ric’s claim seems bogus … but the more he interacts with Jimi, the more Jimi, a victim of torture himself, senses that Ric’s story may be true. Ric leads Jimi down a rabbit hole of pain rediscovered, creating a bond between the two men that borders on madness.