The setting is Berlin. Into this divided city wrenched between East & West between past & present; comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham assigned to a British-American surveillance team. Though only a pawn in an international plot that is never fully revealed to him Leonard uses his secret work to escape the bonds of his ordinary life
- & to lose his unwanted innocence. The promise of his new life begins to be fulfilled as Leonard becomes a crucial part of the surveillance team while simultaneously being initiated into a new world of love & sex by Maria a beautiful young German woman. It is a promise that turns to horror in the course of one terrible evening
- a night when Leonard Marnham learns just how much of his innocence he's willing to shed.