U.S. Army Intelligence Specialist Greg Barnes volunteers to serve with a small detachment at Alpenberg Mountain, West Germany, unaware that the decision will profoundly influence his life. Living in the quaint village of Waldental with his colorful comrades, he adapts quickly and is content to wait out his enlistment. Then one momentous evening he is introduced to Barbra von Kronstadt, a beautiful member of the German aristocracy, and his life is never the same again.