Moving to Africa is the worst thing that has ever happened to Benny Shaw. No one plays hurling (the best game on the planet), the local school is run by hippies and finding out you have an allergy to mosquitoes couldn't come at a worse time. But when Benny meets Omar, a wise-cracking Tunisian boy who speaks English only in TV catchphrases, he decides that maybe there's fun to be had in this new country after all.