A young girl leaves New Zealand for Europe, the big OE. She goes alone, wants do her own thing, unrestricted by others, experience everything. A skilled boaty she wants to crew on a superyacht; she disappears. Her boyfriend, Michael, becomes concerned at the sudden lack of communication and sets off to find her; he disappears.Michael's father Frank, a retired detective, becomes alarmed and sets off to find them both. He discovers a frightening underworld of drug smuggling, murder, and prostitution, dominated by several powerful families. It's devouvred these two youngsters from far off New Zealand.A fast moving story of romance, adventure, and danger set in Paris, Athens, and Istanbul, and spills out into the Pacific.