In the year 1985, amidst the intense Cold War tensions between the East and West, a young woman named Carmen is caught by communist authorities while trying to smuggle Bibles into Romania. Her father, a former Soviet nuclear physicist who lost faith in the regime and defected to the West, becomes the target of Soviet efforts. They aim to coerce him into surrendering by using Carmen’s life as leverage. Meanwhile, the U.S. government, eager to prevent the Soviets from reclaiming their scientist, dispatches a solo operative to rescue Carmen, ensuring that America does not have to succumb to the demands of the smugglers.