 Wallace Ritchie flies to England to spend his birthday with his brother, James. James has business guests coming over and must find something to occupy his brother until dinner s over. Wallace ends up taking part in the "Theatre Of Life," which promises to treat the participant as a character in a crime drama. Trouble begins when Wallace is mistaken for a real spy and shoots a man. Now he s tangled up in a plot to kill Russian dignitaries on the eve of the signing of an important peace agreement. For him, it s all an act. But to the men who want a second Cold War, Wallace is public enemy number one.