 Mrs. Emily Pollifax of New Jersey goes to the CIA to volunteer for spy duty, being in her own opinion, expendable now that the children are grown and she s widowed. And being just what the department needed (someone who looks and acts completely unlike a spy), she s assigned to simple courier duty to pick up a book in Mexico City. But when the pickup doesn t go as plan, Mrs. Pollifax finds herself handcuffed to a handsome stranger on a plane bound for an Albania prison. And it s up to her to get them out.