A publicity seeking radio DJ is driven to the edge of insanity when he attempts to break the 11 day world record for staying awake-under the threat of a deranged caller who will kill him if he falls asleep.

This is the true story of Muntu Ndebele and Norman Knox; teenaged friends, the two were on opposite sides of the violent Apartheid struggle of the 80s, but had a miraculous reunion as friends after Nelson Mandela became President in 1994.