Rome foreign correspondent, Andy Chapman, investigates the killing of a controversial left-wing priest and discovers evidence which appears to implicate the Vatican in the death. He turns his information over to the investigating magistrate, the beautiful Elena Fiorini, and together they begin a hunt for the killers. Probing deeper, they find themselves up against the might of the Catholic Church and a sinister network of neo-Fascist fanatics. They are drawn into a terrifying web of betrayal and violent death in which their own lives are put at risk. Their quest leads them to the very heart of the Vatican and back to the last days of Mussolini’s dictatorship, when people changed their identities but not their allegiances.