There are several hundred people in the world who spend years and fortunes to travel around all the countries, land on remote islands and atolls, visit forbidden zones and closed cities. This is a community of goal-oriented travelers - collectors of countries. In 2015, a new star appeared among them - an unusually young, 22-year-old William Baekeland, heir to a huge fortune of a powerful family.

At his age, William was already completing the list of visited countries and organizing group trips to hard-to-reach places. He made a lot of friends and fans and actively participated in the life of the community. It took its members more than two years to realize that William was a fraud with a completely fictitious personality, who easily deceived other participants for hundreds of thousands of euros.

Harry Mitsidis, one of the world's leading travelers and creator of the community's key site, Nomadmania, began investigating and wrote this fascinating and instructive book about the world's wanderers and the scammer who fooled dozens of smart people.