 1981: Marita Lorenz checks into an Havana hotel and, in a flashback, remembers 22 years  before. At 19, visiting Cuba from New York, she comes to the attention of Fidel Castro, the country s rebel president. He invites her to be his secretary and to be part of the making of the new Cuba. She accepts, but soon learns he already has a capable secretary; Marita s duties lie elsewhere. She becomes pregnant. She s also come to the attention of the FBI and the CIA, so when she wakes up in a US hospital after what may have been a botched abortion against her will in Cuba, her government presses her into service as an assassin: her job, to go back to Cuba and kill her former lover.