Two ‘businessmen’, veterans of an Israeli elite combat unit, arrive in Brazil to establish an association whose official goal is to build a pool of altruistic donors for kidney transplants. To promote their business, they recruit Gilberto, a local Brazilian with sharp senses and impressive organizational skills, as the local mediator and translator during their stay. Do you smell something fishy already?
Morris Pasquale, is the senior Interpol investigator in the organ trafficking unit. Throughout his long career he led to the arrest of dozens of wanted criminals. With the exception of two who manage to elude him for many years. The pursuit of the two criminals crossed continents. He followed them in Thailand, Philippines, Turkey and Sri Lanka… but the two always managed to disappear just before he laid his hands on them. What are they up to this time?
Mushon and Chaimon, childhood friends who were inseparable all their lives. They attended school together, served together in an elite military unit, and after their release, together they established a business that offers terminal kidney patients a kidney transplant abroad for a payment of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
They meet in Salvador-Bahia Brazil. This time, in order to deploy a camouflage network over their illegal activity, they decided to establish an association whose goal is to recruit altruistic kidney donors to save the lives of terminal kidney failure patients. They entrust the role of translator, mediator and executor to Gil, a Sharp-eyed and smooth-tongued young Brazilian waiter, in whom Mushon recognizes the necessary qualities – a handsome and charming combinator waiting for an opportunity to make a big and easy profit.
Mission-driven and enthusiastic, Gil travels to impoverished, crime-ridden slums to recruit donors (for a fee).
At the same time, Mushon and Chaimon are busy creating a collaboration with Professor Adriano Marquez de Álvario, director of the Osvaldo Cruz University Hospital.
Professor Adriano, wavering between temptation and caution, agrees to hold as a pilot only one transplant. The success of the pilot and the way in which the two managed the event, encourages the hospital manager to approve an intensive kidney transplant activity that will slightly enrich the shrunken hospital coffers and add high credit to the institution he heads. His enthusiasm is so great that he himself calls colleagues throughout Brazil and offers them to send their patients to him for a kidney transplant. Thus, the director of the university hospital becomes a marketer for Mushon and Chaimon without being aware that he is playing with fire.
As The weeks pass and while the kidney transplant project gathers momentum, Pasquale’s frustration grows! “Where the hell are they? How do they manage to disappear again as if they had been swallowed underground? Do we have a mole in the organization? Otherwise, how is it possible that every time there is news of their whereabouts, it turns out that they are not there? And what are the strange phenomena that started a few months ago and their frequency and intensity is only getting worse?”
His back hurts, his legs swell, he has an unexplained itch all over his body and he has to urinate frequently. “Morris,” concluded the kidney specialist at the government hospital in Rio de Janeiro, “you have a rare and violent form of kidney disease and you urgently need a transplant.”
The irony of fate – the same people that Pasquale has been chasing for many years, are the ones who can save his life. And the dilemma threatens to shake all the values by which he acted: To buy a kidney from the criminals he is chasing and save his life or stop the two and die of kidney failure? What will Pasquale’s decision be? The ending is surprising.
