The diplomatic capital of Geneva during the Algerian Civil War: Bruno Forestier, is an unvoluntary agent for the OAS carries out a series of contracts for a division of the French Government. He is pressed into service because he of his desertion of the army. On day he receives orders to assassinate an extremist leader of the leftist Arab underground. But Forestier hestitates, he is not the cold-blooded killer. As both factions, French and Arab, begin to close in on him, he desperately tries to arrange passage to South America, but is unexpectedly drawn into a relationship with Veronica, a mysterious woman with unknown loyalties.