A helping expedition and a secret mission at the same time. After an explosion on a civil British weather station at the north pole, Captain James Ferraday, Commander of an American atomic submarine, is forced to save the people. On bord is the misterious passenger Jones, who joins the expedition with a secret mission. His mission is to gather a micro film that is inside a spy sattelite of the Russians near the weather station. The film contains information about American rocket bases. Now a run against the time and against the enemy starts, because everybody want's to own the secret information.