In 1961, Nombeko Mayeki is born a poor black girl in
Soweto. She leaves the slums and is run over by an engineer, who employs her as a cleaner in South Africa's secret
nuclear weapons facility. Her good head for mathematics leads her to cover for her drunken and incompetent employer. Two
Mossad agents eventually murder her employer, but she outwits them and escapes to
Sweden with a trio of female Chinese con artists. Due to a mix-up, Nombeko ends up in possession of a missing South African atom bomb. In Sweden, she settles into a condemned building living in a bizarre commune including a pair of identical twins (both named Holger), the younger of which and his girlfriend are die-hard
republicans determined to end the Swedish monarchy. Nombeko and her Swedish boyfriend (the older Holger) are determined to hand the bomb over to the Swedish Prime Minister, but no-one will believe them. Years later, after several attempts to hand over the bomb have failed in absurd circumstances (including the remaining Mossad agent finding and nearly killing them), the younger Holger and his girlfriend kidnap the
King and the
Prime Minister of Sweden on the spur of the moment from a gala banquet with Chinese President
Hu Jintao at the
Royal Palace in Stockholm, and prepare to blow up the bomb (and everything within a 61 kilometre radius) in order to end the monarchy. Nombeko calms the situation down, saving the King's life, and her own. == References ==