New Zealander Ben has his holiday in Borneo well worked out. His plans include windsurfing, snorkelling and lazing by the pool. They definitely don’t include tours to cultural villages that his mother insists he come on. But it’s during a tour, that Ben meets Mahmood, a Malaysian boy his own age. The two have barely become friends when they are thrust into a world far more menacing that Ben could have imagined – the dangerous world of modern day pirates.