Jean Claude plays an official who`s just been appointed as Second In Command to the U.S.Ambassador at an American Embassy in a small turbulent Eastern European nation.When local insurgents attempt a coup d`etat the nation`s President takes refuge inside the embassy.The embassy is then besieged by the well-armed insurgents.The U.S. Ambassador is killed in the ensuing action an now it`s up to Jean Claude and the embassy`s small detachment of U.S.