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.

Errors in geography: The second episode shows the screen caption 'Tblisi, Russia'. Tblisi is not in Russia, but in Georgia - at the time one of the fifteen soviet socialist republics (SSRs) that constituted the Soviet Union. A more accurate screen caption would therefore be 'Tblisi, Georgian SSR' or 'Tblisi, Soviet Union'.