After Neville Chamberlain announces the signing of the Munich Pact with Germany, RAF officer Keith Wilson becomes disgusted with Britain's appeasement and denounces his country's foreign policy. In protest, Keith paints swastikas on the Nelson Column and is court-martialed and discharged from the service for his actions. Soon after his public humiliation, Keith is summoned to Scotland Yard by Colonel Patterson, who enlists him in the counterespionage division of the British Secret Service, instructing him to pose as a British traitor and infiltrate the Nazi propaganda bureau. Patterson directs Keith to attend a party and, there he meets Ilse Von Preissing and her brother Rudolph, a prominent member of the Nazi propaganda bureau. To accomplish his mission, Keith cultivates a romance with Ilse, and after she and Rudolph leave for Antibes, he follows her there.