Germany during the Cold War, a boy has fled Czechoslovakia. Star reporter Walter Roland investigates the background. In the process, he uncovers a plot: Western and Eastern agents are on the hunt for the Warsaw Pact's deployment plans against NATO, which a Czech officer has taken out of the country.
A Swedish immigrant, stranded at a Nebraska small-town hotel by bad weather, becomes increasingly obsessed by the thought that one of his fellow-guests wants to kill him.
