The year is 1997, and Europe is uniting to end a long series of ruinous wars. But someone tries to shoot Foreign Minister Kiraly of Hungary, a leader of the European integration movement. His daughter, Margit, persuades Kiraly to hire Heinz Weigert, an Austrian counter-terrorism expert to advise and protect him.

Margit finds it hard to believe that General Kolkov, the head of Russian intelligence in Hungary, is as pro-Western as he claims. But after Weigert boasts that he will kill Kiraly and start a war (because he's against European integration except on his own terms), Margit and Kolkov join forces to capture him and take him to face the International Criminal Court.