When Ahmad, an agent of the Iranian Security Services, explores the conjecture that is coming out from his mental disorder, he is left breathless. He is pursuing Markar Kazemian, a nuclear engineer on the run from Iran along with his family, also contended by a team including Helen, a former U.S. Army junkie who hoped to become an elite specialist by joining a secret project of the Research Division of the CIA. As soon as the pursuit reaches Italy, Helen is forced to face the ambiguity of her best friend, Carmen, and becomes the object of the desire of Robert, an agent of the Italian secret services, triggering the jealousy of his wife. But things are not what they seem; the chase opens u p new, unthinkable scenarioes, and when technology and nightmare melt in a crescendo full of twists, a terrible truth emerges, making the fates of the proitagonists converge. Helen could escape, but she choses to complete what became her mission, aware that this might lead her to death. A death she already looked in the eyes in her nightmares.