Suffering from a massive career disappointment, London architect Carl Walters travels to the grand dunes of the Namibian Desert to escape. However, destiny soon strikes and he finds himself stranded alone in the African nowhere, desperately waiting for a ride that never comes. Carl embarks on a bitter rite of passage, a trial only overcome if he is willing to radically change his attitude towards life. In the face of his own demise, Carl learns the simple truth: To survive, you need to act.