Young Sharon is providing election campaign support for her husband Ellis Cameron, who is standing for reelection as mayor of Miami, when their nine-year-old son Tommy is kidnapped at an election event by a Cuban commando unit. The kidnappers then demand that the mayor withdraw from the campaign. Sharon's whole world collapses around her. While Ellis is torn between fear for his son's life on the one hand and his political ambitions on the other, Sharon secretly decides to fly to Cuba, where her son is rumored to have been taken. In Havana Sharon meets Carlos, a German journalist, who worked for several years as an interpreter on the island but is now leading a withdrawn existence ever since his wife and child were killed in an auto accident. Carlos and Sharon find each other fascinating from the very start. Carlos is most impressed by the attractive young woman's courage and willpower, and feels a strength returning to him that he believed had been lost for ever. After some initial ...