We are in the 80s. The shoulder pads, the perms, and the sportex still shimmer in the discos and on the VHS tapes. Lone heroes take on entire armies and turn their backs on explosions.

The Cold War rages just below the surface and through a whirlwind of timeless misunderstandings, misconceptions, and unimaginable bad decisions, perhaps even to the sounds of a synthesizer, emerges the very real "hero" of our story, Oliver North.

Ollie, as his friends call him, is at the center of the paranoid "Iran-Contra Affair", which needs no stereotypical villains, as it starts in the USA and takes a trip from Nicaragua and Brunei to Iran, Lebanon, and a dozen more countries, surpassing all limits of logic.