In the CIA Station in Beirut, Lebanon, the Chief of the Station Soviet Operations section, selects a KGB officer as a recruitment target, and orders the officers in his section to begin gathering the necessary assessment information to determine the new target's vulnerability to a CIA recruitment approach. The Station surveillance team learns the identities of the target's friends and associates, and his daily routines. Follow the CIA exploitation of the Russian target's relationship with family and colleagues, and the innermost thoughts, concerns and fears he experiences in his daily life, which will ultimately put him face to face with opportunities for a bright new career, and relationship with his family, or arrest, humiliation and death.