Following the events of The Winter Soldier, Bucky Barnes has fled to Bucharest, Romania. He has taken a job at a sleazy, third-rate strip joint, where he is known by his alias Max. He is constantly plagued by fragmented memories of his violent past, which he desperately tries to piece together by writing them down in a collection of notebooks. A chance encounter with a "coworker" triggers new memories of being hunted by a woman with red hair. He knows that the woman in his memories is somehow connected to the man ho he was supposed to kill, but whose life he saved instead when he dragged him out of the Potomac. Bucky becomes intrigued with the girl and decides to get to know her. But when he learns that she may be just as alone in the world as he, he starts getting attached... and he knows that getting too close could be very dangerous for both of them.