Life is a brief flash of blue, in a sky of dark clouds …. An attorney in New York, choosing between the two women who love him, and between failure and corruption. A gun-toting Moscow starlet, on the run from the mob, in a Russia struggling to rise from the embers of Communism. A beautiful young divorcée, lost on the West Coast, seeking a soul-mate without an overabundance of optimism. A Cambodian warlord, the U.S. senator sworn to help him, and the D.C. mistress who could destroy them both. Welcome to the 1980s, and a turbulent world eating itself alive.