During the Angolan Civil War, CIA agent Michael Smith is working with UNITA rebels.

He is captured by the Angolan Armed Forces and sent to a prison to be interrogated by an East German named Major Schneider.

The Colonel travels to South West Africa where he pays the mysterious Elia for accurate information about his son's location of captivity.

Entering Angola, the mercenaries team up with Sekassi, the Jonas Savimbi type leader of the rebels to support their rescue of Michael Smith.

Cardos claimed Harry Alan Towers reedited the film that destroyed the continuity of the story.