Traveling by train to cover the music festival in Salzburg two newspaper men, Mike Wilson and Howard Meade, find themselves in the tiny Democracy of Gudavia. They are arrested as being spies. Gudavia has had little contact with the outside world for 5 years since the mysterious death of their king. The reporters learn that the country's leader, Dr. Boronski, is conducting gamma ray experiments on children in an attempt to increase their brain power.—garykmcd