 Young Sharon is providing election campaign support for her husband Ellis Cameron, who is standing for reelection as mayor of Miami, when their nine-year-old son Tommy is kidnapped at an election event by a Cuban commando unit. The kidnappers then demand that the mayor withdraw from the campaign. Sharon s whole world collapses around her. While Ellis is torn between fear for his son s life on the one hand and his political ambitions on the other, Sharon secretly decides to fly to Cuba, where her son is rumored to have been taken. In Havana Sharon meets Carlos, a German journalist, who worked for several years as an interpreter on the island but is now leading a withdrawn existence ever since his wife and child were killed in an auto accident. Carlos and Sharon find each other fascinating from the very start. Carlos is most impressed by the attractive young woman s courage and willpower, and feels a strength returning to him that he believed had been lost for ever. After some initial hesitation, therefore, he says he is prepared to help her. Together they set off in search of Tommy, and have to face several highly dangerous situations together. Amid the tense atmosphere Sharon and Carlos soon start getting serious about each other, and it isn t long before they fall in love and surrender to their passions. After numerous adventures, they finally manage to locate the young boy and free him. It turns out that Tommy wasn t abducted by Cubans at all, but that Sharon s husband s political party had been behind it all instead. The politician s corrupt cronies had wanted to help their party to victory by stirring up anti-Cuban feeling. Carlos accompanies Sharon and Tommy back to Florida, where Sharon has to come to terms with the end of her marriage - but she knows that her love for Carlos will help her to start a new life ...