Young Neal Singer comes back to the early years of the World War Two London blitz from Dunkirk limping from a leg wound that disqualifies him from battlefield service. He is put to other uses in early 1941 in the struggle against Germany, being assigned to crafting war reports in the British Ministry of Information to lift the morale of the British citizens despite the horrors of the war, which now included nightly bombardments of London itself. His commander, Sir Neville Chambers, wants Neal to serve under him in more ways than writing reports for the public, and Neal is urged in another direction as well by a lover, the mysterious Phillip Talbot of the Foreign Office. The influence of these two men lead Neal into using his body to combat a German espionage cell within the Ministry of Information in an effort to stem information on London targeting getting to the Germans.