Bare Essentials

This epic drama opens in Boulder Colorado at the home of Oxford-educated Robert Dalton an internationally known chemistry professor. His houseguest is Jozef Bardowski head of the analytical laboratory of Warsaw's Nuclear Energy Institute. Knowing that Dalton accompanied by his Polish-born wife Helena will shortly embark upon a year's sabbatical at the University of Vienna Bardowski expresses his fears that someone is introducing mind-altering drugs into Poland's natural gas to subdue the Polish people. To present the matter to the United Nations he asks Dalton to analyze gas samples to be smuggled from Warsaw into the Austrian capital. Dalton agrees unaware that by doing so he will subject both himself and Helena to acts of terror including an attempt on his own life.