World renowned journalist Sara Ogden is traversing the world in pursuit of carriers of a fatally dangerous Stamp of Cain in order to prevent seemingly unrelated events such as mass murders, turmoil, revolutions and chaos. She doesnt even suspect how close she is to the edge of the abyss, when in her search she ends up in Belarus to meet face to face with the one, whom she has been searching for her entire life.

作为一枚政治筹马，水兵谍报官欧尼尔（黛咪·摩尔 Demi Moore 饰）成了美国汗青上第一个加入特种军队“海豹突击队”练习的女性军官。凭仗此事，一向呼吁男女同等的参议员狄海雯（安妮·班克罗夫特 Anne Bancroft 饰）取得了诸多选票。但是，自私自利的狄海雯底子就不关心欧尼尔作为个别的感触感染和遭受，由于她心里大白，欧尼尔底子不成能完成特种军队里残暴而又恐怖的练习。