At the Sudanese embassy they hand out raffle tickets to aid workers applying for visas. Some of the numbers come good, others never do. Riding on ticket number 494 is the fate of Milk-Aid - a campaign organised by British farmers to bring help to tens of thousands of Sudanese men, women and children. From a farmyard in Dorset to the desert towns of northern Sudan, Everyman follows the fortunes of Milk-Aid, as good intentions come face to face with the politics of famine.