It is 1985 and a Cold War is raging between East and West. A young woman, while attempting to smuggle Bibles into Romania, is captured by communist forces. The Soviets are determined to force her physicist father to turn himself over in exchange for her life. The United States government, determined not to let this happen, decides to send in a lone agent to rescue her, to make sure that America does not have to pay the smuggler's ransom.