Soviet soldier turned bureaucrat Igor Gouzenko is assigned to his first overseas posting in 1943 to Ottawa| Canada| as a cipher clerk for the military attaché|their offices in a secret wing of the Soviet embassy. Igor is not to tell anyone what he does for a living| he given a cover story which he is to recite even whenquestioned by his own people. He and his wife Anna Gouzenko are supposed to be cordial to their Canadian neighbors and associates| but not fraternize or befriendthem| as they are still considered the enemy| despite both countries being on the same side in the war. Igor follows his instructions to a T| but it is moredifficult for Anna| who does not have the distraction of work during the day| and who can see that their neighbors are not their enemies but good people much likethemselves. Over the next few years| Igor sees that what is happening around him and the work in which he is involved will not result in a world in which he wants toraise his newborn son| …