 A military investigator is thrown into the alien world of Los Alamos, New Mexico: a bleached desert land unfit for human life where scientists are racing against time to unlock the heart of the atom before the Nazis do. His mission is to route out a spy leaking nuclear secrets to Germany. His prime suspect is one of these scientists, the beautiful, haunted, reclusive Hannah Weiss. Digging deeply into this woman s secrets - her romantic and professional past in Nazi Berlin - unleashes a passion that might keep him from the truth.