 Based on the French film "Le Salaire de la Peur" (The Wages of Fear), this production begins with the individual expose of outcasts from different backgrounds/nationalities who are forced by misfortune to work in a remote oil drilling operation in South America. When fire breaks out of control, the outcasts are given the opportunity to earn enough money to get out by transporting two crates of unstable nitroglycerin through miles of jungle in ancient trucks. Will they succeed and regain their honor and citizenship, or get blown up for their efforts?