In a futuristic world, an agent for a corrupt company disguises himself as a scientific reporter to infiltrate a research facility and kill the head of its program. When the agent discovers that the research facility is conducting revolutionary work, he must decide whether to destroy work that could help the human race or to obey orders.

After World War II, as he skis in the mountains of Switzerland, a Jewish Frenchman recognizes a German man who once left him for dead in the snow as a child.