The former intelligence colonel, and now abbot Longin, becomes aware of an impending terrorist attack: Arab extremists are planning to attack the Vatican, where a conference of heads of world faiths will soon be held. The abbot reports the terrorists' plans to the Foreign Intelligence Service, and the commander of the unit for combating international terrorism, Colonel Roslyakov, immediately takes action. He alerts all Italian agents and orders the intelligence officers not to take their eyes off the alleged criminals, and he, together with his best employee Maxim Alekseev, takes off to Italy on the first flight...