A couple of Italo-American journalists go missing during their work assignment in Romania.

Thomas Hellis is a "sniper" of the US intelligence. Posted in Transylvania he must fulfill his most important mission concerning "Silence" a sophisticated technology device of the military intelligence developed by Romanian scientists. A micro-chip that is tempting to all the great powers, not only to Russians and Americans. But something goes wrong and Thomas Hellis will face the inevitable. Trapped in the pitiless process of a cold war, he will have to deal with the nightmare of the present but also with the demons of a very dark past.