When Beau Lafleur was awarded the graduate student slot in the Sudan archaeological excavation project of the legendary Dr. Emmet Emory, he assumed he would have to curb his voracious appetite for gay male sex. What he discovers, however, is not only is the dance of sexual release rampant within the expedition's camp but also that the men of the expedition become swept up in a local tribe's fertility ritual, the Dance of the Ravishers.