Kelly travels to the San Blas islands to help her retired husband ferry tourists around the dangerous Darien Gap. They end up with some bad customers. All of them run into the FARC who specialize in kidnappings for ransom. Kelly is pawned off by different groups for their advantage.
A husband annoyed at his wife's constant refusal to have sex lead him to a Chinese merchant that supplied him with a powder the stirred in with her meal till the powder was finished would turn his wife into a very accommodating woman - read on
Jenny and her husband go sailing in the Sea of Cortez. Boat problems put them in peril with drug smugglers along the Baja Coast. Jenny is forced to bargain away her dignity.