In a hotel room in Paris, a doctor comes out of the shower and finds that his wife has disappeared. He soon finds himself caught up in a world of intrigue, espionage, gangsters, drugs and murder.
A doctor and his wife go to Paris for a medical conference. While he is showering, his wife disappears. His lack of language and the odd way she disappeared makes it nearly impossible for him to find any official help in his search as he enters the punk/drug culture to find out what has happened to her.—John Vogel <[email protected]>
Prominent American surgeon Dr. Richard Walker travels to a medical conference in Paris with his wife, Sondra. The first time they went to Paris was for their honeymoon and now they intend to celebrate the return to there. In their hotel room, Richard realizes that Sondra brought a wrong suitcase. He takes a shower, she receives a phone call, and leaves the room. He sleeps and when he wakes up, he realizes that she is missing. Soon he discovers that she was kidnapped, and he contacts the French police and American embassy, but he does not feel any interest in the agents to search for her. He decides to investigate and soon he meets the suitcase's owner, a small-time drug smuggler named Michelle that decides to help him to find Sondra in the underground of Paris.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
While in Paris attending a conference, Dr. Richard Walker's wife, Sondra, mysteriously disappears. When the French police prove to be of little help, he begins the search by himself. What he finds is a confusing mix-up, but one that could prove to be extremely dangerous and would perhaps be even more so if the police got involved.—Graeme Roy <[email protected]>
Ford plays an American doctor whose wife suddenly vanishes while they're visiting Paris. To recover her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, and triplicate-form bureaucrats. Ultimately and reluctantly, he must try a defiant and mysterious waif who knows more than she says about his wife's kidnappers.—Robert Lynch <[email protected]>
Dr. Richard Walker is a surgeon visiting Paris with his wife Sondra for a medical conference. At their hotel, she is unable to unlock her suitcase, and Walker determines that she has picked up the wrong one at the airport. While Walker is taking a shower, his wife mysteriously disappears from their hotel room.
Still jet-lagged, he searches for her in the hotel with the help of a polite but mostly indifferent staff and then wanders outside to search himself. A vagrant overhears him in a café and says he saw Walker's wife being forced into a car. Walker is skeptical until he finds his wife's ID bracelet on the cobblestones. He contacts the Paris police and the US embassy, but their responses are bureaucratic and there is little hope anyone will look for her.
As Walker carries on the search himself (with input from a very sympathetic but wary desk clerk at the hotel), he stumbles onto a murder scene and then encounters the streetwise young Michelle, who had mistakenly picked up his wife's suitcase at the airport. It transpires that Michelle is a career smuggler but does not know for whom she is working. She reluctantly helps Walker in his increasingly frantic attempt to learn what was in the switched suitcase and to trade whatever it is for the return of his wife.
It turns out that hidden within a small replica of the Statue of Liberty is a krytron, a small electronic switch used in the detonators of nuclear devices. The film ends with a confrontation beside the River Seine where Walker's wife is released. However, a firefight ensues between the Arab and Israeli agents. During the crossfire, the Arab agents are killed but Michelle is also shot and dies with Walker and Sondra at her side. Angry and upset, Walker throws the krytron into the river while the helpless Israeli agents look at him. Soon after, the Walkers leave Paris.
