In North from Rome (1958), Bill Lammiter, a young playwright, becomes involved with a group of equally young Italians fighting a ring of narcotics dealers. His adventures begin when he helps a beautiful young lady escape from kidnappers. She turns out to be the sister of a young Italian aristocrat who has died of a drug overdose, and she is trying to trap the members of the gang who supplied him with drugs. The leader of the gang, Luigi, a count, turns out to be the fiance of Eleanor, Lammiter's former fiancee with whom he is still in love. Still worse, his drug activities are a pretext; he is a Communist agent really interested in engineering the Communist takeover of Italy and eventually the free world. Bill has a rendezvous with a former secret agent who is investigating the ring on his own, but the agent is...