Fernando Meirelles · 2005 · thriller

Fernando Meirelles's 2005 le Carre thriller. When his activist wife Tessa is murdered by Lake Turkana, the mild British diplomat Justin Quayle leaves his Nairobi flowerbeds to retrace her steps - to London, Berlin, and the aid airstrips of the Sudanese border - uncovering a drug firm testing a lethal cure on the African poor. The trail leads him back to the lake where she died.

1. 1
   Nairobi

   Justin Quayle, a reserved British diplomat tending his garden in Nairobi, is told his activist wife Tessa has been murdered in the far north - and quietly refuses the official story that she was merely unfaithful.

2. 2
   London

   Following Tessa's papers to the Foreign Office in London, Justin learns she had traced a lethal tuberculosis drug being trialled on Kenyans - and that his own colleagues wanted her silenced.

3. 3
   Berlin

   In Berlin he meets Tessa's wary contacts at an activist network, piecing together the pharmaceutical conspiracy - and drawing the killers' attention onto himself.

4. 4
   Lokichogio

   Back in Kenya, Justin flies to the aid airstrip on the Sudanese frontier, where the drug's trials and their buried victims can no longer be hidden from him.

5. 5
   Southern Sudan

   At a relief camp across the border he witnesses a raid that carries off a girl he cannot save, and grasps the full human cost of the scheme Tessa died exposing.

6. 6
   Lake Turkana

   Justin returns at last to the desert lakeshore where Tessa was killed, and there, with the truth in hand and no way home, quietly lets her murderers find him.