Keita is in hiding because he has no papers. When he enters his first race he therefore uses an alias. Unfortunately, he chooses “Roger Bannister,” which draws immediate attention. (He has a “d’oh!” moment, when he realizes his error: “Just a few weeks in the country and he’d already been photographed and named in a newspaper.”) Soon, Keita is running to — literally — save a life. There are nefarious happenings aplenty, involving a violent sports agent, a woman who runs a brothel and AfricTown (the black shantytown), a prime minister who is evil incarnate, and a schoolboy who films everything by hiding in various closets.