Contract sergeant Vladimir Lokis is haunted by an obsessive memory he can’t get rid of: long ago, during an anti-terrorist operation, he failed to save a girl, and she died right before his eyes… It seems this nightmare repeats itself. A group of Islamic terrorists has taken over a children’s home on the coast of Spain and threatens to blow it up along with half a hundred women and children. The situation is terrifying. But an order from command can also make you go gray in minutes: Lokis has been tasked—with his Spanish partner—to capture the terrorists alive and free the hostages, while using firearms is forbidden. The order explicitly states: none of the hostages must be harmed.