Surviving a helicopter crash, Ellis Jackson is taken prisoner in Vietnam and placed in a special camp designed specifically for brainwashing. His beautiful Chinese "instructor", Madame NY, seduces him into confusion, but fellow prison Brigadier General James Maxwell St. Clair, a.k.a. Black Max, provides him with his only link to sanity and, ultimately, his escape. Twenty years later, Jackson's nightmares reach a point where only the sensuous Sheila Ward can break through to the present. But with Max's disappearance, Jackson must discover the truth about his nightmares and the lies about his life as a Vietnam POW.