English agent David Chalfin is persuaded to spy for the Zionists and compels the beautiful Jewess Raya Fahmi to assist him. Raya is a prostitute, working in the Trunk, a notorious Cairo brothel bar. Her mission- to unmask a customer, Dr Brian Quinton, suspected of betraying the Allies, murdering a wounded war hero and the nurse who witnessed the murder
Amidst a web of suspense, lies and suspicion, Chalfin falls in love with Raya, but is devastated by her apparent treachery as an attempt is made on his own life. Then the shattering discovery that Quinton is an Allied agent and Chalfin's own enigmatic controller, Winokur, is a spy from the Kremlin, shakes Chalfin's loyalty to the core. And his devotion is tested to its limits as Rava falls victim to the violent reprisals of the spycatchers
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