A terminally tedious anecdote (and that's all it is) about a British diplomat in Africa (played by Australian Colin Friels! ), happily in bed with corruption in all quarters, but reawakened to moral values by an incorruptible Scottish doctor (Sean Connery). Saddled with a stroppy African mistress, Friels also has to cope with the advances of Joanne Whalley-Kilmer and Diana Rigg as the wives respectively of the crooked prospective president (Louis Gossett Jr) and the equally crooked chargé d'affaires (America's John Lithgow with an outrageously exaggerated English accent). A lot of talent goes to waste in this incoherent and inconclusive tale which starts in nondescript fashion and gets nowhere slowly.

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