After an early career amongst the political elite of Cold War Russia, Alexander Ivanov has lived in America for forty years and has managed to bury the tragic memories surrounding his charismatic late wife, Katya or so he believes. For into his life come two women one who will start to open up the heart he has protected for so long; another who is determined to uncover the truth about what really happened to Katya all those years ago. And so we journey back to the snowbound streets of post-Stalinist Moscow what is revealed is a precarious, dangerous world of secrets and treachery.