A man who strikes me as a simpleton gets drunk at a party in 1850s South Africa. In a daze he meets a man who is somewhere between a demon and an angel. He is sent forward in time to 1959 ...
The story tells of a ramblin', gamblin', guitar-strummin' man from Dixie, trying to strike it rich in the Kimberley Diamond region. Accompanying him is his mischievous side-kick - a man with a song in his heart and four aces up his sleeve.
A small town in desperate need of more tourists discovers it was never officially incorporated into the surrounding country, so it declares independence. All goes well until someone decides they need a king. Set in South Africa.