The declining power of oil, a Falklands invasion and a Royal assassination - these are the real world events presided over by our protagonists. But behind their raw ambition and the allure of power, there are childhood abominations, a suffocating family and a lack of personal identity. These intensely personal demons are what drive them in very different ways to seek a new meaning in life. There is the beautiful, estranged British Princess with a deeply troubled past who marries a handsome Argentinian polo player. They plot his rise to be head of the Argentinian military and instigate a coup that involves the invasion of the Falkland Islands. Her disturbed son, the Prince goes missing from his Royal duties and travels to Argentina to confront his mother, pursued by the British secret services. The boss of a multinational oil company, waging a personal battle in Argentina involving the "disappeared ones," shares newly discovered Antarctic oil with the new Argentinian military government. Together they break the Antarctic Treaty and use the Falklands as a base to develop the oil.

The interplay between these competing forces together with the hidden machinations of the British, US and Argentinian secret services comes to a dramatic climax in The Falklands.