A group of Jesuit Priests invite Rabbi Daniels to join them on their investigative visit to Nicaragua shortly after the Sandinista revolution toppled the Somoza dictatorship. Rabbi Daniels is interested in going so he can determine if this new revolutionary government is anti-Semitic, as is being charged by the U.S. Government. He is told by the State Department that if he goes down to Nicaragua as a rabbi, he will be killed. The Jesuits promise to protect him with their lives by hiding his identity as he travels with them. However, he is soon embroiled in the murder of a nun when one of his Jesuits he befriends is accused of the killing. Rabbi Daniels announces that he will act as the priest's attorney and reveals that he is a rabbi. However, he is now warned that his involvement as a defense attorney could place him in jeopardy of being imprisoned along with the accused priest. His only protection is the appearance of a mysterious woman he inexplicably meets during his midnight reconnaissance of the Jewish cemetery. While he is able to get the accused priest out of Nicaragua, this same priest seeks out the rabbi several years later as he once again is accused of murdering a nun.