The Nile perch, once artificially introduced into Lake Victoria, provoced an ecological desaster, but its tender fillets are successfully exported all around the world. Ex-Soviet cargo planes come daily to collect the latest catch, in exchange for their southbound cargo: ammunitions for the uncounted wars in the dark centre of the continent. This booming multinational industry of food and weapons has created ungodly multicultural alliances on the shores of the world's biggest tropical lake: an army of young fishermen, Indian fish factory investors, African ministers, EU-commissioners, Russian pilots, Tanzanian prostitutes.