The team from 'PrimeLine' TV have pretty well sewn up the 'jelly game', that dubious area of journalism featuring Elvis, aliens and sex scandals, but they're made for better things.
When a new Japanese sponsor insists that they cover an important Antarctica ecology conference in New Zealand, they determine to show their true documentary-making skills.
Unfortunately all is not as it seems; there is a hidden agenda somewhere: the mysterious Japanese trade mission; American interference; eco-terrorism; and worst of all, a rival media crew. Survival calls for subterfuge, deviousness, cunning and courage. A bit of luck might come in handy, too.
The author has spent twenty years wrestling with the dark side of film and documentary making. Some of this story could even be true. All of the facts are.