This is the inner story of how Trieste stumbled on the edge of the knife at the end of World War II. This pivotal city near the borders of Italy, Austria and Yugoslavia, in May 1945 between Allied, Russian and Yugoslav armies on the front lines of the vital strategic cold war. Germany was defeated, and now there were new enemies - Russia and communism.

Through the stories of twelve men and women from seven different countries, Flashpoint Trieste, on a human scale, highlights the beginning of the Cold War. A British colonel from the Special Operations Director, a Maori officer from a New Zealand infantry battalion and the Yugoslav captain's race active on May 1, 1945, with allies bent on striking Tito and Ross forces into the vital port.

While a US infantry general, embellished with fighting in Italy, carries the line where Triest is divided between the American and British armies and the Yugoslavian communist militias of Marshal Josip Broz Tito. US intelligence officer tracking Nazis.

A communist Italian woman is traveling to her hometown of Auschwitz. The Austrian special forces commander is on his way to escape from justice for the atrocities he committed in the city.

After surviving the war, everyone became desperate to make it pass through liberation. US investigators are looking for priceless artifacts stolen by the Germans.

British intelligence will not stop anything to hold the line against fanatical communism, and the Italian rebels collide with fascist collaborators. Life is fast and violent, as the former warring parties are making a common cause against the Russians.

As the global system develops in the post-Second World War, the new borders of Europe are drawn.