Jonathan Moore is an active participant in “Gotcha,” a paintball shooting game played by students on the UCLA campus. Jonathan effectively stalks and “shoots” several players. In the process, he bumps into a girl, spilling her soda. He apologizes and asks her out but she stalks off. On his way to class, he asks out another girl but she would rather “do nothing” than go out with him. Jonathan is almost hit by another Gotcha player, but he escapes and goes to a class in Veterinary medicine. The professor demonstrates a tranquilizer gun on an actual tiger while Jonathan gets dating advice from his friend, Manolo. The boys are soon off to Paris and Spain for spring break. Manolo meets Heidi, a pretty Swedish girl, and pretends to be “Carlos,” a terrorist. He tells Jonathan that girls go crazy for the intrigue and asks that Jonathan give him two hours before coming back to their hotel room. Jonathan waits in a café where he attracts the attention of a sexy brunette. Sasha is a 24 year old Czechoslovakian grad student at Berkeley. Jonathan claims to be 23, but when Sasha says she likes younger men, he admits he is only 18. She asks if he is a virgin. He denies it until Sasha says she likes to be the first woman to have sex with a man. They head to Jonathan’s hotel and it is Manolo’s turn to get lost for a couple of hours. The couple spends the next few days romancing their way through Paris but Sasha is on a “working vacation” and must go to Berlin. She asks Jonathan to come with her instead of going to Spain with Manolo. They check into a Berlin hotel and head out for beers. Sasha steps away to make a phone call, confirming to the person on the other end that she has Jonathan with her and he is “like a Boy Scout.” That night Sasha surprises Jonathan with the news that she is a courier and her work will take them to East Berlin. Getting through the checkpoint is nerve-wracking. They check into an East Berlin hotel for the night and, after Jonathan falls asleep, Sasha sneaks out for a secretive meeting. A man gives her the kiosk location of a meeting at noon the next day. Sasha heads back to the hotel and, unknowingly, passes Vlad, a suspicious looking man. The next day, Vlad follows Jonathan and Sasha as they walk around East Berlin. Sasha tells Jonathan that if he ever gets a message from her to meet at the Café Friedrichstrasse, he must leave East Berlin immediately. Jonathan waits in a cafeteria while she goes to her meeting. At the kiosk rendezvous, Sasha receives a roll of film. She joins Jonathan and hands him a package of strudel to carry in his backpack. He wants to know what is inside. She tells him it is only strudel but Jonathan is sure it contains something else. Sasha notices Vlad following them and tells Jonathan she has one more thing to do and will meet him in an hour. Vlad chases her and Sasha barely escapes. She meets with a mysterious man and is ordered to “use the boy.” Sasha doesn’t want to, but the film is too important to risk letting it fall into the hands of Vlad, the Russian. When she finally calls Jonathan, he rushes to meet her at a subway station. Sasha sneaks the roll of film into his backpack and says she will meet him at the hotel in forty-five minutes. Instead, she calls and tells Jonathan to meet her at the Café Friedrichstrasse. He runs for the border. Sasha is caught by Vlad and strip-searched, but she does not have the film. Jonathan is also strip searched at the East Berlin checkpoint, and has to buy another day’s visa before they let him out. Jonathan crosses into West Berlin as Vlad arrives at the checkpoint. Jonathan returns to their West Berlin hotel and receives a message to meet Sasha at the Spandau Citadel tower the next day. Their hotel room has been ransacked and his luggage, including his traveler’s checks, is gone. Another woman waits at the Citadel, and asks Jonathan for the package Sasha gave him in East Berlin. She is surprised when Jonathan gives her the strudel. Before she can question Jonathan, Vlad shoots her. Vlad and his henchmen chase Jonathan around the Citadel, but he escapes to a nearby town. Three punk rockers, headed to Hamburg, offer Jonathan a ride and disguise him as a punk rocker to get through an East Berlin checkpoint. Jonathan arrives back in Los Angeles and finds the extra roll of film in his backpack. Suddenly, the window shatters but it is only fraternity guys playing football. Jonathan tells his parents about his adventure, but they think he must be on drugs. After leaving his parents’ house, Jonathan believes a car is following him. When the car pulls up beside him, Jonathan sideswipes it and gets arrested. He returns home the next day to find three men searching his apartment. Jonathan goes to the CIA for help but is stunned to see Sasha talking to one of the men who searched his apartment. Manolo returns home and Jonathan asks for his help. Sasha calls and Jonathan arranges to meet her, but Manolo and his “homeboys” send Sasha and the CIA agents on a wild goose chase around Los Angeles. Eventually, Manolo drops Sasha off at UCLA where Jonathan waits in the sculpture garden. Sasha’s accent disappears when she admits she is really Cheryl Brewster, a CIA agent. Suddenly, Vlad shoots at them and, with his henchmen, chases them through the campus. Jonathan races to the Veterinary classroom to get the tranquilizer gun and darts. Sasha calls for help while Jonathan takes down Vlad’s henchmen. Vlad catches Sasha, holds her hostage and orders Jonathan to hand over the film. Another Gotcha player arrives and shoots Jonathan with a paint pellet. Vlad is momentarily distracted and Jonathan shoots him with a tranquilizer dart. Jonathan gives the film to the CIA. Sasha apologizes for setting him up and they kiss. Later, Jonathan runs into the girl he previously spilled soda on. She is obnoxious to him, so Jonathan pulls out the tranquilizer gun, shoots a dart and “gotcha.”