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.
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.