July 1914 and Europe is in crisis
As the Continent spirals uncontrollably towards all-out war, the British foreign secretary pressures the German government into a last-resort peace conference. In the chaos of frenzied diplomacy, the fledgling British secret service, the forerunner to Mi6, sends two unlikely agents to the conference in the Kaiser's summer capital, uncovering a German pro-war conspiracy of high-ranking politicians, military officers,...