A young German who drops out of high school in the 1970s and heads to the US, but things don’t go his way so he joins the U.S. Army – although he identifies himself more with the hippie movement, but subsequently is sent to Vietnam, where he deserts and ends up working as a secret agent for the CIA and the BND.
West German pacifist Michael Müller ends up as a GI in the U.S. Army after a wild cross-country odyssey through America, the land of his dreams. Now Michael Miller, he’s a medic in Vietnam. Shaken by combat’s horrors, Miller decides to desert. Eluding the authorities halfway around the world, he returns to the United States. To avoid prison for desertion, Miller pledges to smuggle defectors and dissidents from hostile countries for the CIA. After thrilling operations in the Eastern Bloc and the Middle East, he faces the ultimate challenge: rescuing 141 German civilians from the chaos of revolutionary Iran. An incredible story-based on true events.