Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, is determined to save Issa, a half-starved young Russian man smuggled into Hamburg, from deportation. In pursuit of Issa's mysterious past, she confronts Tommy Brue of Brue Frr es, a failing British bank based in Hamburg. Annabel, Issa and Brue form an unlikely alliance -- and a triangle of impossible loves is born. Meanwhile, scenting a sure kill in the "War on Terror," the rival spies of Germany, England and America converge upon the innocents.