The Last King of Scotland opens with Nicholas Garrigan describing how he happened to become the personal physician to Idi Amin president of Uganda in the 1970s While Garrigan is serving as a physician at a bush surgery in the western Ugandan provinces he is called to the scene of an automobile accident Lying on the ground next to his wrecked Maserati is President Amin who needs his wrist bandaged A few months later Garrigan is asked to come to the capital as Amins personal physician He complies