When Count Alvaro is kidnapped and held for ransom, a sequence of unpredictable events unfold. The beautiful Contessa d'Forte finds she's in an unpredictable whirl of happenstance while in the pursuit to repossess two toy bears containing incriminating reports of her espionage. Caught in the intrigue of smoldering rebellion, a naive young clerk, Bernardo, becomes a competitor, entangled in the same pursuit. Their paths collide as friends and enemies, both racing against time to avoid a charge of treason, unaware that they hold each other's fate in their hands.