A wickedly funny cross-cultured comedy of errors and an edgy murder mystery, with a series of comic misunderstandings between East and West, men and women. Timid, unobtrusive and fearful of foreign destinations, American businessman Mickey Malone arrives in Peshawar, the teeming ultra-conservative half-town-half-city on Pakistan's border with Afghanistan. The Khyber Hotel is comfortable enough, but Malone cannot shake off his growing fear that something nasty is ...