The year is 1976. Hijackers from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine take control of an Air France jetliner with 248 on board and take it to Uganda where President Idi Amin welcomes the terrorists. Then Israeli Commandos take it back. Now Amin and the PFLP are out for revenge for their humiliation. And the KGB is very interested in help. And the CIA, using Ivan Yazov, has its own interestes.