When an American journalist living in 1939 Germany agrees to write articles for the Soviets, he gets dragged into dangerous activities and is sought by warring factions when British and Nazi intelligence discover his actions.
Working as a reluctant double agent for Russia and the CIA in politically strained 1948 Berlin, John Russell is approached by a woman he saved during World War II who begs his help reclaiming her child from behind the Iron Curtain.