Eastern Hungary is taken over by Communist Russia. People are divided because most refuse to join the communist party. Robika wants not in it. He goes to work with the American Embassy and becomes a secret spy for them. Aware he is being followed by the secret police, he keeps a secret love affair while living a luxurious but dangerous lifestyle.


Against his will, Robika is drafted into the new Russian Red Army. Four years later, he is arrested as an enemy spy. He is interrogated, beaten, starved, and imprisoned.


After escaping a death sentence, enduring torture and starvation, and more years in prison, the Soviets offer to release Robika if he returns to the American Embassy and works as a secret spy for the Russians.


The Hungarian Revolution goes into full force as the Russians attack with tanks and heavy ammunition. Robika begs the Americans to help him out of the country and away from communism. They offer him a position in the American Embassy in Vienna, Austria. Robika then devises a plan to get the Soviets to help him out of the country as well.


What will become of Robika and his double-agent espionage?