The isolated Tyrol is a fine incubator for the remittent contagion of aziism and its residual members of a Bund, and Laura Hart, sister to a British diplomat and eyewitness to a political murder, represents both an inconvenience and a anger to their plans- no ""kindersport"". Her own insistence on the innocence of an Italian in the shooting further jeopardizes her chances of escape, but with the help ere and there of an American newspaperman and a providential Secret Service artist, she makes her gateway... Breathless activity- breathtaking scenery give this its edge.