When Mary Ashley is aproached to become ambassador of the United States of America in Rumania she does not take the offer because her husband does not want to give up his well-going doctor's office. Shortly afterwards Dr. Edward Ashley gets killed in a car accident. After this Mary Ashley reconsiders the offer and finally accepts. Arrived in Rumania she is confronted with a complex plot in which the American President's current plans to improve relations between the US and communist countries shall be sabotaged. Written by Alto Speckhardt

The president himself calls Professor Mary Ashley to become ambassador of the United States in the communist Rumania under Unesco. He wants her to introduce a new political line. The time she accepts, she doesn't know how much resistance she'll meet... already before the leaves, her husband is killed in a suspicious car accident. Arrived in Rumania, she has not only trouble being accepted as a woman and newcomer in politics, but also gets into a deadly intrigue that shall sabotage the detente policy. Written by Tom Zoerner