Summer 1956 in Tangier: Richard Corrigan in his office as a private detective dreams of America. When a Swiss lawyer offers him a large sum to carry an envelope a few meters away to the bar of the Minzah hotel. There, Claudia, a magnificent twenty-year-old Italian is waiting for her. For Corrigan it is the beginning of fortune, but also the beginning of trouble. Many crimes follow the wake of luscious Claudia.