 When Mary Ashley is aproached to become ambassador of the United States of America in Rumania she does not take the offer because her husband does not want to give up his well-going doctor s office. Shortly afterwards Dr. Edward Ashley gets killed in a car accident. After this Mary Ashley reconsiders the offer and finally accepts. Arrived in Rumania she is confronted with a complex plot in which the American President s current plans to improve relations between the US and communist countries shall be sabotaged.