The lives of a Nicaraguan musician, an American reporter and a CIA officer intersect in 1983 in Sandinista Nicaragua. The president of the United States has labeled the Sandinistas Communist. He awaits an incident that will justify a direct American invasion of Nicaragua, and the U.S. ambassador to neighboring Honduras labors to create one for him. A kidnaping, a border massacre and an embassy explosion cement an unlikely friendship between Nicaraguan Gabriel "Indio" Saavedra and Robert Jorgensen, CIA