Multi-billionaire Peter Swann is starting a satellite-supported project that aims to detect disease outbreaks at an early stage in order to be able to intervene more quickly. But the rocket that is supposed to take the satellite into space explodes shortly after it has been launched. His fiancée, doctor Grace Davila, then persuades him to hire security professional Vincent Corbo to investigate the incident.

During a charity gala for the Panacea project, Peter confronts his sister. Vincent is put under pressure, and Grace is called out on a dangerous mission before the gala ends in disaster.

After the surprising deaths, Peter realizes that his half-sister Zora will stop at nothing to expand her power. Before following Grace to the Congo, where the Marburg virus broke out, he transfers his voting rights to his father Reginald. On the way to the airport, Peter and Vincent are attacked by a drone controlled by Zora's security chief Luther.

Thanks to the daring pilot, Grace, Malu and Djamba manage to return safely to the camp. But Grace is very worried about Peter and Vincent, who they had to leave behind, and would like to go straight to find them. The men have fled and ended up in a minefield, which not only endangers their persecutors, but also themselves.

While Peter and Vincent fight for their lives in the Congo, Zora prepares everything in Dublin for a hostile takeover of the Swann Empire. Meanwhile, Peter's daughter Jane starts an affair with Vincent's younger brother Danny and gets on the wrong track. In the Congo, Grace is seriously ill with the Marburg virus and urgently needs medical help.