Early morning in Brussels, it is raining cats and dogs. Belgium has taken over the presidency of the EU, and Belgian Prime Minister Michel Devreese is preparing for a high state visit at his home on the outskirts of the city. Within hours, he is to greet the U.S. president and discuss pressing political issues with her after a state banquet. But when Michel joins his chauffeur and press spokeswoman Eva in his car, the car is ambushed a short time later by an armed commando. The chauffeur dies and is replaced by an accomplice of the terrorists. Their demand: Michel should shoot the US president. Under their leader, the men use Michel's family as leverage: they have taken his wife Christine and his two children Laura and Sander into their control center, an abandoned old factory in Vorst. From Vorst, their leader also operates the state-of-the-art technical surveillance apparatus. Not only are Michel and Eva bugged and monitored via their wristwatches, but the new "chauffeur" does not leave their side. This arouses the suspicion of Michel's chief of staff, Paul, when the president leaves her plane and the protocol-defined course of the state visit begins. As the victims desperately try to avert their fate, they look directly into the grimace of terror, often unable to tell who is friend and who is foe. But Michel is determined to save his family, even if it may cost his own life.