In 1946 Romania's oil rich regions are coveted by unscrupulous foreign oil companies and by the Communists who aim to nationalize Romania's oil industry.
In 1950 a Western spy is clandestinely parachuted into Communist Romania to retrieve secret WW2 codes and agent lists and also to assist a group of anti-Communist guerrillas escape but the Communist police is setting a trap.
A young man is freed from prison. The communists are reforming him.