Synopsis: Vacationing in a Latin American country, American brain surgeon Eugene Ferguson and his wife, Helen, get caught in a revolutionary uprising against dictator President Raoul Farrago. Kidnapped by the military and ordered to operate on Farrago, who has a life-threatening brain tumor, Eugene hesitates, believing he might reason with Farrago to stop the imminent civil war. The situation is heightened when Helen becomes a pawn of the revolutionaries.